As a last example I give the most detailed list of all, from the neighbourhood of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. The times given are naturally to be taken on the average. 12 midnight, centre of night or halving of night; 2 a. m., frog-croaking; 3, cock-crowing; 4, morning also night; 5, crow-croaking; 5.=15=, bright horizon, glimmer of day, reddish east; 5.=30=, the colours of cattle can be seen, dusk, diligent people awake, early morning; 6, sunrise, day-break, broad daylight; 6.=15=, dew falls, the cattle go out; 6.30, the leaves are dry (i. e. the dew disappears); 6.=45=, the hoar-frost disappears, the day chills the mouth (this applies only to the two or three winter months); 8, advance of the day; 9, (the sun is) over (at a right angle with) the purlin; 12 noon, over the ridge of the roof.--In the forenoon the position of the sun nearly square with the eastern purlin of the roof marked about 9 o’clock; and as noon approached, its vertical position about the ridge-pole, or at least its reaching the meridian, clearly indicated 12 o’clock. In regard to the terms for the afternoon we must bear in mind that the houses in former times were always built with their length running north and south and with the single door and window facing the west; the sunlight coming in after midday at the open door by its gradual progress along the floor gave a fairly accurate measure of time. The house therefore served, as among the Dyaks, as a kind of sun-dial.--12.=30= p. m., day taking hold of the threshold; 1, peeping in of the day (into the room), day less one step; 1.=30=--2, slipping of the day, decline of the day, afternoon; 2, (the sun) at the rice-pounding place (i. e. the sunbeam falls on the rice mortar), at the house-post (there were in the house three posts supporting the ridge: in the southern one there were notches, _jinja andry_, from which the advance of the sunlight and of the day was observed); 3, at the place of tying the calf (as the rays reached the one of the posts to which the calf was tied at night); 4, at the sheep- or poultry-pen; 4.=30=, the cow newly calved comes home; 5, the sun touching (i. e. when the declining sunshine reached the eastern wall of the house); 5.=30=, the cattle come home; 5.=45= sunset flush; 6, sunset (lit. ‘sun dead’); 6.=15=, the fowls come in; 6.=30=, dusk, twilight; 6.=45=, the edge of the rice-cooking pan is obscure; 7, people begin to cook rice; 8, people eat rice; 8.=30=, finished eating; 9, people go to sleep; 9.=30=, everyone in bed; 10 gun-fire; 12, midnight[120].