LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Old Village Gateway with Circular Stone . . Frontispiece 



FACING PAGE 



On the Coast Lagoons . . . . . .28 



A Forest Road . . . . . . 32 



Low-class Girl fetching Water . . . . -5 



A Sihanaka Woman playing the Vahiha . . . -5 



Betsimisaraka Women . . . . . 58 



Hova Women weaving . . . . . 58 



Family Tomb of the late Prime Minister, Antananarivo . . 66 



Royal Tombs, Antananarivo . . . . .66 



Earthenware Pottery . . . . . 76 



Digging up Rice-fields . . . . . -76 



Pounding and winnowing Rice . . . . -78 



Hova Middle-class Family at a Meal . . . -78 



Rocks near Ambatovory . . . . . .92 



Typical Hova House in the Ancient Style . . .96 

 On the Coast Lagoons ..'.... 106 



Transplanting Rice . . . . . .112 



Hova Tombs - . . . . . . .118 



Friday Market at Antananarivo . . . . .120 



Ancient Village Gateway . . . . . . 1 24 



A Forest Village . . . . . . -134 



Chameleons . . . . . . -136 



Analamazaotra . . . . . . .146 



Memorial Carved Posts and Ox Horns . . . -156 



Blacksmith at Work . . . . . .156 



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