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CHAPTEE XIV. 
HINTS TO TRAVELLERS. 
As to the question “ What shall we take ? ” which 
we are beginning to hear on all sides from those 
who are intending to visit the great African 
island, we at once frankly reply, “ The first 
necessity is a good constitution.” There must be 
no weakness of any sort in the physical system 
if a visit to, or a sojourn in, Madagascar is con¬ 
templated. It is not a place for invalids, or 
persons with weak lungs, or in fact with any 
chronic complaint or ailment of any kind or 
degree of intensity. The strong and robust can 
live in the country and brave the inevitable 
attacks of malaria, but if there is a weak place 
in the system the fever will find it out, and 
fasten upon it with fearful malignity. Whilst 
New Zealand, or the Cape, or Australia, may in 
some cases be extremely beneficial to persons 
who cannot endure the climate of the north 
temperate zone; of the climate of Madagascar 
