¹ De Coclo, cd. 1868, 493—7.

² Tlie editor has heard of a European planter who, having died in the jungles of the Malabar country of South—west India, was buried there by the people. Some years afterwards, a friend of the planter found the grave carefully fenced in and covered with empty whisky and beer bottles. At a loss to understand such an unusual sight, he asked for an explanation, and was told that the dead sahtVs ghost had caused much trouble and that no way had been discovered to lay the ghost until an old witch—doctor declared that the ghost craved whisky and beer, to which it had long been habituated when in the flesh and which ware the real cause of its separation from the fleshly body. The people, although religiously opposed to intoxicants, began purchasing bottled whisky and beer of the same brands which the sahib was well known to have used, and, with a regular ritual for the dead, began sacrificing them to the ghost by pouring them out upon the grave. Finding that this kept the ghost quiet they kept up the practice in self—defence.—W. Y. F—W.