chap. ii. PHOTOGRAPH OF A NATIVE DWELLING. 
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above tbe ground. On a subsequent occasion, when the 
chief was sitting under the verandah, and his aides-de- 
camp waiting in attendance outside, I obtained a photograph 
of this, the first native dwelling which I had entered in 
Madagascar. The walls inside were covered with rofia cloth, 
HARBOUR MASTER'S HOUSE, TAMATAVE 
and a fine large mat was spread on the floor. A neatly 
made four-post bedstead, covered with fine sleeping mats, 
stood in one corner; choice cooking utensils in another; 
bags of rice and stores, with materials for making mats, and 
native and European weapons, occupied other parts of the 
dwelling. In the centre was a table of native workmanship, 
