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Updated: June 11, 2025
"What will you do now?" asked Laihova. "I will remain where I am till night-fall, for I dare not show myself all bruised like this. When it is dark I will slip out and continue my journey to the coast." "To Tamatave?" asked Laihova, naming the chief seaport on the eastern side of Madagascar. "Yes, to Tamatave." "Do you go there to trade?" "No. I go on important business."
"I feared that," said the King, "for I doubt not that you has friends in your native home which draws you. Well, you wishes to go. I say, `Go with my good-will. There is Breetish ship loading at Tamatave now. If you and you's friends mus' go, there be your chance, and I will send you to Tamatave in palanquins. We all very sorry you go, for you was useful to us, and you was be kind to my mother!"
Here at Tamatave a fireplace or heating stove in a house are unknown appendages. The Hovas for a long period were the rulers previous to the conquest and occupation by the French, who by diplomacy "force and iron will" the means usually adopted by the strong when a coveted prize looms in the distance, added an immense territory to their colonial possessions.
The roadstead before Tamatave offers a good anchorage, except when the wind is from the north or east. Several species of pandanus and some tall cocoa-nut trees gave a tropical character to the scenery. Soon after anchoring, a large but rather clumsy canoe came alongside, with an officer who spoke a little English, and said he was the harbour-master, and a number of attendants.
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