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is the Malagasy cycle, in which period the fandroana is 
held at the same season of the year. 
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The Malagasy, who are little accustomed to number the 
years they have lived, sometimes allude to the circumstance 
of their having seen and remembered three fandroana at 
the same season. Now, supposing a person seven years of 
age when the feast occurred in Spring—he would be forty 
when it occurred again in Spring, and seventy-three at the 
