CHAPTER XI

FOREST SCENES 140

Forest Scenes and Sounds—The Goat-sucker—Owls—Flowers and

Berries—Palms and other Trees—The Bamboo-palm—Climbing

Plants—Mosses, Lichens and Fungi—Their Beautiful Colours

—Honey—The Madagascar Bee—Its Habits and its Enemies—Forest

People—The Bétròsy Tribe—A Wild-Man-of-the-Woods—A Cyclone

in the Forest—A Night of Peril

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