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Updated: June 20, 2025
Strange to say, during all this trying time, these fugitives found comfort not only from the Word of God, but from the Pilgrim's Progress of Bunyan! This work had been translated into the Malagasy language by the English missionaries, and many passages in it were found to be singularly appropriate to, and comforting in the circumstances in which the persecuted people were placed.
The letters received at that time told of indescribably dreadful sufferings for Christ's sake, and the sight of the Malagasy refugees who fled to Mauritius, fired her young soul with the desire to become a missionary. This desire, however, in her exceeding reserve, she kept to herself.
But the art of story-telling has not everywhere given rise to a professional class. When the Malagasy receive friends at their houses, they themselves recount the deeds of their ancestors, which are handed down from father to son, and form the principal topic of conversation.
The camp was divided into four parts; the Queen being in the middle, in a blue tent, surrounded, wherever she halted for the night, by high palisades, and near to this was pitched a tent containing the idols of the royal family. The tent of the Prime Minister, with the Malagasy flag, was pitched to the north of that of the Queen.
This was "the Word" to which reference had been made an old, much-soiled and worn Malagasy Bible, which had been buried there, so that, whatever might become of its Christian owners, it might escape being found and condemned to the flames, as so many of its fellows had been. It was a curious Bible this, in more respects than one.
Where a house is near the public road they have usually a little square platform, called the fijerena, in an angle of the wall, or at the gate, with steps leading up to it. Here the family sits, when the work of the day is over, to watch and, doubtless, to criticise the passers-by; also to do the polite according to Malagasy ideas, for it must be told that these people are very courteous.
The natives of Assam persistently assert that a bright yellow Cymbidium grows there, of supremest beauty, and we expect it to turn up one day; the Malagasy describe a scarlet one. But I am digressing. Epidendrums mostly will bear as much heat as can be given them while growing; all demand more sunshine than they can get in our climate.
Except among the very poorest people, a Malagasy family has usually two or three houses in its enclosure frequently more, for young married people often live beside their parents, and some houses are appropriated to slaves, while others are used as kitchens, etcetera, the whole being surrounded by a wall of clay.
But now you have come, and my prayer is answered. `He is faithful who has promised. Look here." The old man went to a corner of the hut, and returned with two soiled pieces of paper in his hand. Sitting down, he spread them carefully on his knees. Mamba recognised them at once as being two leaves out of a Malagasy Bible.
The Protestant missions are regarded as centres of treason and enmity to French authority. Had they insisted, with the British Government of a bygone day, in saving the island for the Malagasy, they would have succeeded. Our commerce has also had to suffer, for the French instruct the natives that they must only buy articles of French manufacture.
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