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WHY AND HOW WE WENT TO MADAGASCAR.

Religious Revolution in Madagascar--The Idols PAGES 1-24 burned--Increased Help sent from England to the Mission--A Deputation appointed to visit the Island--Our Journey thither--Marseilles--Naples--Fellow-passengers--The Suez Canal--Aden--The Indian Ocean--Mauritius--The Bullockers--Passage across--Tamatave; the Town, Port, and Market--English and Native Friends--Sunday--The Native Churches and their Worship--Help they need--Importation of Rum into Madagascar and its evils--The Trade of Madagascar

FIRST EXPERIENCES OF MADAGASCAR AND ITS PEOPLE.

East Coast of Madagascar, its Character and PAGES Population--Supplies needed by a Traveller 25-49 to the Capital--Our Journey--Inland Lagoons--Park-like Scenery--Andevoranto--Ascend the Iharoka--"See the conquering Hero comes"--The Pass of T?niak?va--The Sorrows of the old Slave-system--System of our Journey--The great Ridge west of Bef?rona--Scenery of the Forest--The Plain of Ankay--The great Ridge of Angavo and its Forest--The Eastern Valleys of Imerina--Our Arrival and Reception--Population of the East Coast scanty--First Visits--The City empty--Why--Description of Antananarivo--Origin, Name, and Growth of the City--Interest of the Native Churches in our Visit

VISIT TO THE BETSILEO PROVINCE.

The Betsileo Province, its importance and PAGES position--The Mission recent--Journey 51-98 thither--The Ank?rat Mountains, their breadth and height--Encamp at the foot--The Vava Vato--Bet?fo and S?rab?--The River Mania--Ambositra--N?nd?hizana--Ambohinambo?rina--Ik?la--The Matsiatra River--Fianarantsoa--Visit of the Queen to the Province--Worship in the Camp--Examination of the Schools--The Tan?la--Our Visit to Ambohimandroso and Imahazony--The Southern Terrace and hills--The Ib?ra Tribes--Amb?ndromb?--The I?rindrano--Fianarantsoa again--Ifanjakana--Latitudes and Heights--General Conclusions concerning the Betsileo Province: its Population and Resources--Religious condition--New arrangements of the Mission for its Instruction--Return to the Capital

RETURN TO THE CAPITAL.

Return of the Queen and Military PAGES Expeditions--Thunderstorm--Public entry into 99-128 the City and reception by the People--Uniforms and ceremonies on the occasion--Reason and Course of the War--Our Interview with the Queen--Address from the Directors--Rest in the City--Home at An?lak?ly--Visits to the Institutions in the City--Worship with the Native Churches--Festival of the Fandr?ana--Visit to Country Missions in Imerina--Importance of these Stations--Vonizongo--The District: its spirited people: their high principle: many of them Martyrs--Position of an English Missionary in these Districts--Ambohimanga--Journey thither across country--A Royal City: its sturdy people: places around it--Amb?tov?ry: its beauty--Ambatomena and its People--Our return to Antan?nar?vo

HOW IT STRIKES A STRANGER.

Settling in the Capital--My Madagascar PAGES Home--Prospect over Imerina--Family Life and 129-155 Housekeeping--Our Servants--The Garden--Weather, Thunderstorms--Beauty of Imerina--The great City Market: Food, Dress and Manufactures Sold--Low Prices--Money--Settlements of the European Families--Roads--Our Dress--The Sun--The Palace--Social Life in the Capital--Lack of External Stimulus--Sources from which it may be supplied--Memorial Church at Faravohitra--The Martyrs who suffered there--Conference of Missionaries held in January--Topics discussed--Resolutions and Arrangements--Concluding Meeting--Important Re-arrangements resulting from it--Love of the Bible among the People--The Churches in the City--Opening of the Memorial Church at Ampamarinana

THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE OF MADAGASCAR.

The East Coast of the Island--The West PAGES Coast--Travels of M. Grandidier--Maps of 158-188 Madagascar--Mr. Cameron's Survey--Additions made by us--Size of Madagascar--The Mountain mass along its centre--Terraces on all sides--The Malagasy people a single race--Their Three Tribes and their Sub-divisions--The Malagasy not an African race--Their Malay origin--Evidence supplied by their Language--New Words from Arabic, French and English--Reference to Madagascar by Marco Paolo--Early Navigation of the Eastern Seas very extensive--Phoenician, Hindu, Chinese and Malay--Madagascar colonised by Malays--Three independent Movements--Traditions of the Hovas--Their Arrival in Imerina--Conquest of the Vazimba--Increase in Imerina--Their recent History--Ralambo and his Descendants--Imp?in and his consolidation of the Kingdom--Rad?ma--State of the Country, of Social Life and of the Sakalava Tribes in his day--The people still a federation of tribes--Their Institutions--Their steady growth in Civilisation, as well as in Religious Character

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