POPO LANGUAGE

[s. 608] : A dialect of the Ewe, used as a vernacular by tribesmen in Dahomey and To go land, living between Lagos and the Volta River. PORAYAR-. A suburb of Tranquebar, Madras, India, situated in the district of Tanjore, 21 miles N. of Negapatam, and 5 miles N. W. of Karikal. Population, 14,500, of whom 11,000 are Hindus. Station of the Leipzig Mi ion Society (1842), with (1903) 2 mi ionaries and their wives, 21 690 native workers, 7 outstations, 8 places of worship, 25 day schools, 4 boarding schools, 1 industrial school, and 2,003 profe ed Christians, of whom 921 are communicants. The name is also written Poreiar. POREIAR. See Porayak. 608