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Updated: June 20, 2025
Great was the excitement all over the country when the Queen's intention was made known. The idea was not indeed a novelty. Malagasy sovereigns had been in the habit of making such progresses from time to time in former years. The wise King Radama the First frequently went on hunting expeditions with more or less of display.
Accordingly, early in the morning for the Malagasy are early risers their friend the Interpreter came to conduct them to the spot, with a gift of a striped lamba for each of the white men. "Why she not send one for me?" demanded Ebony, pouting and Ebony's pout was something to take note of!
The proclamation ended, the people dispersed, and Mark and his friends were returning to their quarters when they were arrested by a party of soldiers. As usual, their first impulse was to resist violently, but wisdom was given them in time, and they went quietly along. Of course Mark protested vehemently both in English and in broken Malagasy, but no attention whatever was paid to his words.
He led them into one of the side caves, when the whole of the people followed, as if by preconcerted arrangement. Here a much-soiled book in a leathern cover was produced. It was a portion of the Bible in the Malagasy language.
Then he came to her, and she announced his arrival to all the people, who assembled and welcomed him. He abode there; and when his wife's relatives complained that he did not go and get food, he obtained it in abundance by the exercise of magical powers; and so they lived happy ever after. Now let us turn to the Malagasy tale of the way in which Andrianòro obtained a wife from heaven.
"Das de greatest power in de world!" chimed in Ebony. "It is," returned the Prince, "and you be very sure I use the power much as I can for save your friend." The garden party is by no means a novelty of the present day. In the early part of this century if not much earlier Malagasy sovereigns seem to have been wont to treat their Court and friends to this species of entertainment.
The wood-cutter, an old man, was busy splitting a large tree into planks by means of wedges when our traveller came up. This wasteful method of obtaining planks is still practised by some natives of the South Sea Islands. Formerly the Malagasy never thought of obtaining more than two planks out of a single tree, however large the tree might be.
This interchange of civilities was entirely formal, and stood in the place of the Englishman's opening remarks on the weather, to which a Malagasy would as soon think of referring, in this connection, as he would to the hatching of crocodiles' eggs. Then followed the conventional inquiry, "How are you?
Indeed from a third to a fourth of the army was composed of officers, so that "ta Phairshon," with his excess of pipers over fighting men, would not have appeared very outrageous in the eyes of the Malagasy troops! These officers had an eye to profitable business when not on service.
"If you were persecuted by the Queen and threatened with death, would you consider it allowable to fly to the forests?" "Yes the Word of the Lord recommends that." "Would you consider it right to assist a fellow-Christian to fly?" "Truly I would!" "Well then, you will assist me this night, for I have spoken to Rafaravavy. My Malagasy words are few, but love does not require many words!
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