A CANOE VOYAGE. 
Ill 
natural product of the country, as a protection 
against the insidious inroads of the disease ; and 
even when taken in this crude state, the marvel¬ 
lous and rapid effects of quinine are marked and 
certain. The mortality, however, amongst the 
Hova garrisons is very great, and whole regi¬ 
ments have been decimated by the fever within 
a few months of their arriving on the coast from 
the interior. 
The lakes of Nosive, Irangy, Rosoobo, and 
Ivavongy, between Tamatave and And^voranto, 
are well supplied with delicious fish of several 
kinds, and rude weirs are constructed at frequent 
intervals across their broad waters, to retain the 
finny harvest which, at stated seasons, is brought 
to land by hundreds of lakana and crowds of 
excited fishermen. 
At Yavony, on the lake Ivavongy, a curious 
sight may often be witnessed. As evening draws 
near, in the season, numbers of canoes put off from 
the landing-place, each carrying a fire at the 
bows, and filled with boys and men armed with 
sharp long spears. Immense shoals of fish dart 
up in the direction of the blaze, and by the 
dexterity of the fishermen these are caught upon 
the spears, and so secured. Fires are kindled 
along the shores, and rude racks erected over 
them, upon which the fish are rough-dried and 
smoked, after being split open, and the roes, 
