CONTENTS 13 



CHAPTER XVIII 



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SOUTHWARDS TO BETSILEO AND THE SOUTH-EAST COAST . 228 



Why I went South How to secure your Bearers The Old 

 Style of Travelling Route to Fianarantsoa Scenery Elabor- 

 ate Rice Culture Betsileo Ornament and Art Burial 

 Memorials We leave for the Unknown A Bridal Obligation 

 Mountains and Rocks Parakeets and Parrots A Dangerous 

 Bridge Ant-hills The Malagasy Hades Brotherhood by 

 Blood Betsileo Houses " The Travelling Foreigners in their 

 Tent" A Tanala Forest Waterfalls A Tanala House- 

 Female Adornment 



CHAPTER XIX 



IVOHITROSA ....... 246 



Ivohitrosa Native Dress a Grand Waterfall Wild Rasp- 

 berries The Ring-tailed Lemur The Mouse - Lemur A 

 Heathen Congregation Unlucky Days Month Names The 

 Z&hitra Raft A Village Belle and her " Get-up "The Card- / 

 amom Plant Beads, Charms and Arms Bamboos and Pandanus 

 A Forest Altar Rafts and Canoes Crocodiles Their Bird 

 Friends Ordeal by Crocodile Elegant Coiffure A Curious 

 Congregation Ambohipeno Fort We reach the Sea Gigantic 

 Arums Sea-shells Pulpit Decoration Butterflies Pro- 

 tective Structure in a Certain Species An Arab Colony 

 Arabic Manuscripts Frigate-birds and Tropic-birds Other 

 Sea-birds 



CHAPTER XX 



AMONG THE SOUTH-EASTERN PEOPLES . . . 257 



Hova Conquest of and Cruelties to the Coast Tribes The 

 Traveller's Tree and its Fruits A Hova Fort Ball Head- 

 dressing Rice-fields Volcanic Phenomena Voavontaka Fruit 

 A Well-dunged Village Water from the Traveller's Tree 

 We are stopped on our Way A Native Distillery Taisaka Mat 

 Clothing Bark Cloth Native Houses and their Arrangement 

 Secondary Rocks Ankarana Fort A Hospitable Reception 

 A Noisy Feast " A Fine Old Malagasy Gentleman " 

 A Hearty " Set-Off " Primitive Spoons and Dishes Burial 

 Memorials 



CHAPTER XXI 



THE SOUTH-EASTERN PEOPLES .... 270 



A Built Boat In the Bush A Canoe Voyage Canoe Songs 

 The AngrcBcum Orchids Pandanus and Atafa Trees Coast 

 Lagoons A Native Dance A Wheeled Vehicle Lost in the 

 Woods A Fatiguing Sunday Dolphins and Whales Forest ^/ 

 Scenery A Tanala Funeral Silence of the Woods The Sound 

 of the Cicada Mammalian Life Hedgehogs and Rats Why 



