CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTORY . . . . . 17 



Natural History of the Island Still Little Known Roads and 

 Railway We travel by Old-Fashioned Modes Great Size and 

 Extent of Madagascar 



CHAPTER II 



TAMATAVE AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY . . 2O 



" The Bullocker " Landing at Tamatave Meet with New 

 Friends Landing our Luggage Bullocks and Bullock Ships 

 Native Houses Strange Articles of Food A Bed on a Counter 

 First Ride in a Filanjdna At the Fort The Governor and his 

 " Get-Up " A Rough-and-Ready Canteen 



CHAPTER III 



FROM COAST TO CAPITAL ! ALONG THE SEASHORE . . 27 



Travelling in Madagascar Absence of Roads " General 

 Forest and General Fever " Pleasures and Penalties of Travel 

 Start for the Interior My Private Carriage Night at Hivon- 

 drona Native Canoes Gigantic Arums Crows and Egrets 

 Malagasy Cattle Curious Crabs Shells of the Shore Coast 

 Lagoons Lovely Scenery Pandanus and Tangena Trees 

 Pumice from Krakatoa Sea and River Fishes Prawns and 

 Sharks Hospitable Natives Trees, Fruits and Flowers " The 

 Churchyard of Foreigners " Unpleasant Style of Cemetery 

 " The Hole of Serpents " Killing a Boa-constrictor The 

 White-fronted Lemur Andovoranto How the Aye-Aye was 

 caught What he is like And where he lives A Damp 

 Journey 



CHAPTER IV 



FROM COAST TO CAPITAL : ANDOVORANTO TO MID-FOREST . 48 



A Canoe Voyage Crocodiles and their Ways River Scenery 

 Traveller's Tree Which is also " The Builder's Tree " 

 Maromby Coffee Plantation Orange Grove We stick in the 

 Mud Difficulties of Road Ranomafana and its Hot Springs 

 Lace-leaf Plant Native Granaries Endurance of Bearers 

 Native Traders Appearance of the People Native Music and 

 Instruments Bamboos Ampasimbe Cloth Weaving Native 

 Looms Rofia-palms " A Night with the Rats " Hard Travel- 

 ling Beforona The Two Forest Belts The Highest Mountains 

 Forest of Alamazaotra Villages on Route The Blow-Gun 



