The Antananarvio Annual and Madagascar Magazine, 5. köide,17–20. number

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London Missionary Society Press, 1893
 

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Page 256 - Antananarivo Annual and Madagascar Magazine. — A Record of Information on the Topography and Natural Productions of Madagascar, and the Customs, Traditions, Language and Religious Beliefs of its People.
Page 403 - ... was instituted to denominate stranger. From similar causes the names of rivers, places, and things, have suffered so many changes, on the western coast, that frequent confusion occurs ; for, after being prohibited by their chieftains from applying any particular terms to the accustomed signification, the natives will not acknowledge to have ever known them in their former sense.
Page 278 - ... one from the other. Their food consists of fruit and insects, and most probably honey. I have frequently seen them catching the flies that have entered their cage for the honey; and I have supplied them with moths and butterflies, which they have devoured with avidity. They are extremely shy and wild. Although I have had between thirty and forty caged at different times, I have never succeeded in taming one. They are also very quarrelsome, and fight very fiercely, uttering a most piercing, penetrating...
Page 189 - ... dishonor are distributed among them, what is of good or of evil report in their eyes," as a recent writer has it, will surely be apparent in their national proverbs.
Page 278 - So close is the resemblance, that it requires good eyes to distinguish the one from the other. Their food consists of fruit and insects, and most probably honey. I have frequently seen them catching the flies that have entered their cage for the honey; and I have supplied them with moths and butterflies, which they have devoured with avidity. They are extremely shy and wild. Although I have had between thirty and forty caged at different times, I have never succeeded in taming one.
Page 504 - ... insectivorous. Its large and powerful teeth lead me to infer that it may possibly wound trees, and cause them to discharge their juices into the cavity made by its teeth, and that upon this fluid it probably feeds. This appears to me the more likely, as I observe that our specimen returns frequently to the same spot on the tree which she had previously injured. I am also strengthened in my opinion by noticing the little attention paid "by the animal to its food. It does not watch or look after...
Page 99 - ... to give an opinion of any value, that the language of the various tribes is one and the same, and that the many varieties in pronunciation and syntax are simply dialectic, and do not represent radically different languages. That an African element is present in the island no one can deny, but it has never been strong enough to materially influence the social distinctions ; nor has there yet been discovered any tribe which is so completely African, either in language or physique, as to leave no...
Page 278 - The dwarf lemurs inhabit a belt of forest-land stretching from the eastern forest into the heart of Betsileo, a few miles north of Fianarantsoa, where they are tolerably abundant. They live on the tops of the highest trees, choosing invariably the smallest branches, where they collect a quantity of dried leaves, and make what looks from below like a bird's nest.
Page 211 - The seasons in the central regions of the island are practically only two : the hot and rainy period, from the beginning of November to the end of April ; and the cool and dry period, during the other months, from May to October.
Page 307 - Lights and Shadows ; or, Chequered .Experiences among some of the Heathen Tribes of Madagascar.

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