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MADAGASCAR 
Jesuits. These have already some 130,000 adherents 
among the Malagasy, and support 600 schools. Even 
among the northern Sakalava they have attained a 
certain amount of success. It is worthy of mention that 
besides a cathedral the French missionaries have built 
a beautiful observatory in the Capital, for the service 
of astronomical and meteorological science. 
