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CHAPTER XXI continued 



PAOB 



axe Birds comparatively so few ? Insect Life in the Forest A 

 Stick-Insect Protective Resemblances The Curious Broad- 

 bill Bird Minute Animal Life in a River Plant Ambohimanga 

 in the Forest A Tanala Chieftainess River-fording and Craft 

 We reach the Interior Highland Betsileo Tombs Return to 

 Antananarivo 



CHAPTER XXII 



TO SAKALAVA LAND AND THE NORTH-WEST . . . 285 



North-West Route to the Coast River Embankments 

 Mission Stations A Lady Bricklayer In a Fosse with the Cattle 

 An Airy Church on a Stormy Night A Strange Chameleon 

 The " Short " Mosquitoes Ant-hills and Serpents A Sacred 

 Tree Andriba Hill and Fort An Evening Bath and a Hasty 

 Breakfast Parakeets, Hoopoes, and Bee-eaters The Ikopa 

 Valley Granite Boulders Mevatanana : a Birdcage Town 

 We form an Exhibition for the Natives Our Canoes Crocodiles 

 Shrikes and Fly-catchers Tamarind-trees Camping Out 

 The " Agy " Stinging Creeper River Scenery Fan-palms 

 Scaly Reptiles and Beautiful Birds Fruit-eating and Other Bats 

 Secondary Rocks Sparse Population The Sakalava Tribes 

 A Vile-smelling Tree 



CHAPTER XXIII 



TO THE NORTH-WEST COAST ..... 301 



Tortoises Gigantic Tortoises of Aldabra Island Park-like 

 \ Scenery The Fierce Little Fosa Small Carnivora Beautiful 

 Woods " Many Crocodiles " Town A Curious Pulpit A Hot 

 Night A Voyage in a Dhow Close Quarters on its Deck An 

 Arab Dhow and its Rig Bembatoka Bay Mojanga An Arab 

 and Indian Town An Ancient Arab Colony Baobab-trees 

 Valuable Timber Trees The Fishing Eagle Turtles and Turtle- 

 catching Herons The North-West Coast A Fishing Fish 

 Oysters and Octopus Nosibe and Old Volcanoes Our Last 

 Glimpses of Madagascar 



