148 VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. chap. vi. together, they fitted close to her neck, and the poor girl, while wearing this instrument of punishment and disgrace, was working with the rest. On another occasion I saw a boy, apparently about fifteen years of age, with a rough, heavy, iron collar on his naked neck. It seemed to be MODE8 OF PUNISHING SLAVES. formed by a square bar of iron about three quarters of an inch thick being bent round his neck, and the two ends then joined together. Yet he was working with a number of other boys and men employed in carrying fire-wood to the beach for the shipping. Another slave whom I saw working near the same place had an iron collar round his neck with two or three pointed iron spikes, six or seven inches long, fixed