HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
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to reach upwards of two hundred miles on the eastern coast 
of Madagascar. 
Eight or nine miles from Tamatave, is the village of 
Anjolokefa, occasionally called Hivondrona, (and in some 
maps marked Ivondro,) though Hivondrona is more pro¬ 
perly the name of the river only, which proceeding from 
the interior of the country, falls into the sea at the 
distance of about two hundred yards from the village. 
Anjolokefa was the residence of the enterprising chieftain 
Fisatra, otherwise called Fische, or Fish. He held in sub¬ 
jection to himself all the inhabitants of the Betanimena, 
Tamatave, and Mahavelona provinces. This village was 
at that time the principal place on the coast. His very 
name was a terror even through the province of Ankay, 
(west of Betanimena,) the eastern part of which he con¬ 
quered. He was at length murdered by a party from the 
interior, who contemplated in his death the ruin also of his 
brother and ally, John Rene, of Tamatave.* In this they 
failed: John Rene lived to inflict terrible vengeance on the 
murderers of his relative. A son of Fisatra, named Berora, 
intended to succeed to his father’s possessions, was placed 
for some time under the care of the Rev. D. Jones, on the 
commencement of the missionary efforts of the latter at 
Tamatave, but was shortly afterwards taken from the island, 
and conveyed to Paris for education, where he lately died. 
What political views the French government may have had 
in this measure, remain yet to be developed in the future 
connexions France may form with Madagascar. 
To the west of Hivondrona is a fine cataract called 
Ifito; inferior, however, to some in the Betanimena country; 
* Rene was chieftain of Tamatave ; Radama formed with him the alliance 
of brotherhood, agreeably to the custom of the country, called Fatidra, and 
described in Chapter VII, of the present volume. 
