FROM COAST TO CAPITAL: ALAMAZAOTRA TO ANTANÀNARÌVO 63
“Weeping-place of Bullocks”—“Great Princess” Rock—Grandeur
of the Vegetation—Scarcity of Flowers—Orchids,
Bamboos, and Pendent Lichens—Apparent Paucity of Animal
Life—Remarkable Fauna of Madagascar—Geological Theories
thereon—Lemurs—The Ankay Plain—An Ancient Lake—Mòramànga—River
Mangòro—Grand Prospect from Ifòdy—The
Tàkatra and Its Nest—Hova Houses—Insect Life—Angàvo
Rock—Upper Forest—Treeless Aspect of Imèrina—Granite
Rocks—Ambàtomànga—And its big House—Grass Burning—First
View of Capital—Its Size and Situation—Hova Villages—A
Cloud of Locusts—Reach Antanànarìvo