SOUTHWARDS TO BÉTSILÉO AND THE SOUTH-EAST COAST 228
Why I went South—How to secure your Bearers—The Old Style
of Travelling—Route to Fianàrantsòa—Scenery—Elaborate Rice
Culture—Bétsiléo Ornament and Art—Burial Memorials—We leave
for the Unknown—A Bridal Obligation—Mountains and Rocks
—Parakeets and Parrots—A Dangerous Bridge—Ant-hills—The
Malagasy Hades—Brotherhood by Blood—Bétsiléo Houses—“The
Travelling Foreigners in their Tent”—A Tanàla Forest
—Waterfalls—A Tanàla House—Female Adornment