A naturalist in Madagascar : a record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the island / by James Sibree.

  • Sibree, James, 1836-1929.
Date:
1915
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Credit: A naturalist in Madagascar : a record of observation, experiences, and impressions made during a period of over fifty years' intimate association with the natives and study of the animal & vegetable life of the island / by James Sibree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I PAGE INTRODUCTORY . . . . . 17 Natural History of the Island—Still Little Known—Roads and Railway—We travel by Old-Fashioned Modes—Great Size and Extent of Madagascar CHAPTER II TAMATAVE AND FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE COUNTRY . . 20 “ The Bullocker ”—Landing at Tamatave—Meet with New Friends—Landing our Luggage—Bullocks and Bullock Ships— Native Houses—Strange Articles of Food—A Bed on a Counter— First Ride in a Filanjcina—At the Fort—The Governor and his “ Get-Up ”—A Rough-and-Ready Canteen CHAPTER III FROM COAST TO CAPITAL I ALONG THE SEASHORE . . 27 Travelling in Madagascar—Absence of Roads—“ General Forest and General Fever ”—Pleasures and Penalties of Travel— Start for the Interior—My Private Carriage—Night at Hivon- drona—Native Canoes—Gigantic Arums—Crows and Egrets—- Malagasy Cattle—Curious Crabs—Shells of the Shore—Coast Lagoons—Lovely Scenery—Pandanus and Tangena Trees— Pumice from Krakatoa—Sea and River Fishes—Prawns and Sharks—Hospitable Natives—Trees, Fruits and Flowers—“ The Churchyard of Foreigners ”—Unpleasant Style of Cemetery— “ The Hole of Serpents ”—Killing a Boa-constrictor—The White-fronted Lemur—Andovoranto—How the Aye-Aye was caught—What he is like—And where he lives—A Damp Journey CHAPTER IV FROM COAST TO CAPITAL : ANDOVORANTO TO MID-FOREST . 48 A Canoe Voyage—Crocodiles and their Ways—River Scenery —Traveller’s Tree—Which is also “ The Builder’s Tree ”— Maromby—Coffee Plantation—Orange Grove—We stick in the Mud—Difficulties of Road—Ranomafana and its Hot Springs— Lace-leaf Plant—Native Granaries—Endurance of Bearers— Native Traders—Appearance of the People—Native Music and Instruments—Bamboos—Ampasimbe—Cloth Weaving—Native Looms—Rojfta-palms—“ A Night with the Rats ”—Hard Travel¬ ling—Beforona—The Two Forest Belts—The Highest Mountains —Forest of Alamazaotra—Villages on Route—The Blow-Gun