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labour to the good-natured women and to make their 
own life as pleasant as possible. 
Quite in the north, around the bay of Diego Suarez, 
live the Antankara, who on account of the unproductive¬ 
ness of the soil are driven to fishing and cattle-raising. 
They are closely related to the Sakalava, but must have 
received a good deal of Arab blood. They are of great 
height, and the remarkable size of body of some of the 
Bara (from the Revue des Sciences). 
women is striking. They have always evinced much 
sympathy for the European element and are more to be 
trusted than the Sakalava. 
More to the south, principally in the neighbourhood 
of the Lake Alaotra, lives a lake people, the Sihanaka. 
Their country consists partly of extensive swamps, partly 
of undulating plains; it is considered very unhealthy. 
According to the as yet very incomplete accounts, the 
Sihanaka appear to be a mixed people closely connected 
in character with the negro tribes of the east coast, but 
