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VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. 



winnowed away, and the bodies dried in the sun, or some- 

 times fried in fat, and then kept in sacks for food, or sent to 

 the markets for sale. In some parts of Ankova and in the 

 provinces of the Betsileo to the southward, grasshoppers and 

 silkworms, in the chrysalis state, are collected in large quanti- 

 ties, cooked and eaten as food, or offered for sale. 



CATCHING XOCUSTS. 



The market at this place was small, and only a few articles 

 were exhibited; but the markets in this province are, many 

 of them, especially those held near the capital, attended by 

 multitudes of people from the surrounding villages, and con- 

 tain every kind of manufacture both native and foreign, as 

 well as all kinds of native produce and articles of food. At 



