APPENDIX. 
I. BRIEF NOTICE OF TIIE LATE KING RADAMA. 
This prince was the son of Impoin-imerina, and Rambola-maso- 
andro the sister of a chieftain whom he had conquered. These, 
like most other Malagasy names, are significant, the former 
meaning “expectation or desire of Imerina,” Imerina being the 
name of the province of which he was sovereign, and Rambola- 
maso-andro signifying “It is yet sun, or daylight.” Of Radama’s 
father it is said that he was affable, eloquent, and ambitious, bent 
on improving the resources of his own country and conquering 
others; that he loved warriors and admired courage, respected 
age and rewarded the impartial administration of justice, enacting 
many useful laws. Having himself gained possession of the 
capital during a season of general revelry and intoxication, he 
prohibited the use of all intoxicating drink, lest a similar result 
should occur from the same cause among his own people. He 
died at the capital in 1810. 
Radama was born at the ancient and fortified village of Am- 
batomanga in 1792. His early life afforded indications of 
shrewdness and good feeling. When quite a child, having ob¬ 
served that his father and mother had some dispute, and that the 
latter had been sent away divorced, he contrived one day during 
his father’s absence to tie a chicken to the leg of a chair in the 
house. His father on his return, called the child, and asked why 
he had so treated the little animal. He replied it was a “ little 
child crying for its mother.” Impoina, it is added, took the 
hint, and sent for his wife home. 
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