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MADAGASCAR 
the Sakalava, under which name is included some half 
million of the inhabitants of the west coast. Their home 
embraces wide plains as well as undulating hilly country, 
Kanusiky-Sakalava, of Morondova. 
(From a Photograph by Dr A. Voltzkow.) 
and its steppe-like character is far better adapted for 
raising cattle than for agriculture. Their mode of life 
consequently approaches that of nomads, and is far less 
settled than among the Hova. 
The Sakalava are an. interesting people, and having 
