CONTENTS 11 



CHAPTER IX 



PAOB 



AUTUMN AND WINTER . . . . . Il6 



Old Towns Ancient and Modern Tombs Memorial Stones 

 Great Markets Imerina Villages Their Elaborate Defences 

 Native Houses Houses of Nobles Hova Children Their Dress 

 and Games Village Churches And Schools A School Examina- 

 tion Aspects of Nightly Sky Epidemics in Cold Season 

 Vegetation 



CHAPTER X 



AT THE FOREST SANATORIUM ..... 127 



A Holiday at Ankeramadlnika The Upper Forest Belt The 

 Flora of Madagascar Troubles and Joys of a Collector A 

 Silken Bag Ants and their Nests In Trees and Burrows ( * 

 Caterpillars and Winter Sleep Butterflies' Eggs Snakes, \ 

 Lizards and Chameleons An Arboreal Lizard Effects of / 

 Terror Some Extraordinary Chameleons The River-Hog 

 Sun-birds 



CHAPTER XI 



FOREST SCENES ...... 140 



Forest Scenes and Sounds The Goatsucker Owls Flowers 

 and Berries Palms and other Trees The Bamboo-palm 

 Climbing Plants Mosses, Lichens and Fungi Their Beautiful 

 Colours Honey The Madagascar Bee Its Habits and its V' 

 Enemies Forest People The Betrosy Tribe A Wild-Man-of- 

 the- Woods A Cyclone in the Forest A Night of Peril 



CHAPTER XII 



RAMBLES IN THE UPPER FOREST .... 150 



Forest Parts Lost in the Woods Native Proverbs and Dread 

 of the Forest Waterfalls A Brilliant Frog Frogs and their ( 

 Croaking A Nest-building Frog Protective Resemblances and \ 

 Mimicry Beetles Brilliant Bugs Memorial Mounds Iron / 

 Smelting Feather Bellows Depths of the Ravines Forest 

 Leeches Ferns Dyes, Gums and Resins Candle-nut Tree 

 Medicinal Trees and Plants Useful Timber Trees Superstitions 

 about the Forest Marvellous Creatures The Ball Insect \f 

 Millipedes and Centipedes Scorpions 



CHAPTER XIII 



FAUNA . . ; . . . . .162 



The Red-spot Spider Various and Curious Spiders Pro- . 

 tective Resemblances among them Trap-door Spiders The 

 Centetidae Malagasy Hedgehogs The Lemurs The Propi- 

 theques The Red Lemur Pensile Weaver-bird The Bee- 

 eater The Coua Cuckoos The Glory and Mystery of the Forests 

 A Night in the Forest 



