The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine, 3. köide,9–12. numberLondon Missionary Society Press, 1885 |
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... government , and often changing their habitations . " The Sa- kalava used to go into their houses and take away anything they liked , and to prevent this intrusion , the Vazimba kept their houses well supplied with a kind of cow - tick ...
... government , and often changing their habitations . " The Sa- kalava used to go into their houses and take away anything they liked , and to prevent this intrusion , the Vazimba kept their houses well supplied with a kind of cow - tick ...
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... government , are avowedly the work of an editor ; and there are occasional turns of humour resembling Defoe , but the language rarely does so . It is certain that there was a Robert Drury , -that he had been a captive as stated , -that ...
... government , are avowedly the work of an editor ; and there are occasional turns of humour resembling Defoe , but the language rarely does so . It is certain that there was a Robert Drury , -that he had been a captive as stated , -that ...
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... Government , the Transcriber is only answerable for putting some Reflections in the Author's Mouth , which as it is the only Artifice here us'd , he makes no Scruple to own , and confess that he cou'd not pass such remarkable and ...
... Government , the Transcriber is only answerable for putting some Reflections in the Author's Mouth , which as it is the only Artifice here us'd , he makes no Scruple to own , and confess that he cou'd not pass such remarkable and ...
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... governments in later times , have alike sought , though without avowing it , in patronizing and promoting schools , to ... government based on fànompóana ( i.e. forced and unpaid service ) , might , to many of the people , assume the ...
... governments in later times , have alike sought , though without avowing it , in patronizing and promoting schools , to ... government based on fànompóana ( i.e. forced and unpaid service ) , might , to many of the people , assume the ...
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... Government required that all the books which had been distributed by the missionaries should be given up , and very many were thus removed from the hands of the people . One result of the scarcity of books that followed was , that the ...
... Government required that all the books which had been distributed by the missionaries should be given up , and very many were thus removed from the hands of the people . One result of the scarcity of books that followed was , that the ...
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Ambohimanga Andriamanitra Andrianampoinimerina Ankaratra ANNUAL Antananarivo appears Arabic basaltic belong Betafo Betsileo Betsimisaraka called Capital character chief chiefly Christian colour crater Dahle dialects Dictionary district Drury east coast English exists fanorona feet forest French gasy genera genus give given gneiss Government granite Hova hymns idols Ilahidama Imerina inhabitants interior island King known Komr lake large number lava living London Missionary Society Madagascar Malag Malagasy language Malagasy words Malay Malayan Malayo-Polynesian Mauritius means miles Mission Missionary Society native occurs origin peculiar perhaps pieces Polynesian present probably provinces Radama regard remarkable river Robert Drury Robert Drury's rock root rubrics Sakalava scholars seems seen Sibree side sikidy species Swaheli words syllable Tamatave tion trachyte trade translation tree tribes various vazaha Vazimba volcanic W. E. Cousins write
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Page 19 - Modesty, with Seriousness, and with a religious Application of Events to the Uses to which wise Men always apply them, (viz.], to the Instruction of others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will.
Page 19 - Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The Editor believes the thing to be a just History of Fact...
Page 200 - A FEW more years shall roll, .£*- A few more seasons come, And we shall be with those that rest Asleep within the tomb.
Page 20 - The just application of every incident, the religious and useful inferences drawn from every part, are so many testimonies to the good design of making it public, and must legitimate all the part that may be called invention or parable in the story.
Page 60 - ... feet ; and there are also numerous extinct volcanic cones and craters. All round the island, but especially developed on the south and west, are plains of a few hundred feet elevation, formed of rocks which are shown by their fossils to be of Jurassic age, or, at all events, to belong to somewhere...
Page 204 - I roved at random thro' the town, And saw the tumult of the halls; And heard once more in college fanes The storm their high-built organs make And thunder-music, rolling, shake The prophets blazon'd on the panes; And caught once more the distant shout, The measured pulse of racing oars Among the willows; paced the shores And many a bridge, and all about The same gray flats again, and felt The same, but not the same; and last Up that long walk...
Page 144 - And if, as is probable, these opposite motions of the earth's crust usually take place in parallel bands, and are to some extent dependent on each other, an elevation of the sea bed could hardly fail to lead to the submergence of large tracts of existing continents ; and this. is the more likely to occur on account of the great disproportion that we have seen exists between the mean height of the land and the mean depth of the ocean. Keeping this principle in view, we may, with some probability,...
Page 18 - Pirates, being an account of the Famous Enterprises of Captain Avery, the Mock King of Madagascar, with His Rambles and Piracies, wherein all the Sham Accounts formerly publish'd of him, are detected.
Page 129 - This insular sub-region is one of the most remarkable zoological districts on the globe, bearing a similar relation to Africa as the Antilles to tropical America, or New Zealand to Australia, but possessing a much richer fauna than either of these, and in some respects a more remarkable one even than New Zealand.