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HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
The accompanying wood-cut of the likeness of the chief 
officer in the embassy sent to England and France in 1835, 
which is copied from an excellent portrait taken by Sperling, 
is given as exhibiting the characteristics of the fair or olive- 
coloured class. 
With regard simply to colour, there are but two distinct 
races in Madagascar—the olive and the black. But as 
these have occasionally intermixed, there are all possible 
varieties between them; and in some it would be difficult 
to affirm to which division they belonged, being as much 
inclined to one colour as the other. The vigour of health 
frequently gives a ruddy tinge to the countenance of the 
olive-coloured race; but this, while it removes them from 
