. Round the black man's garden . disposed around his head and neck; his hairwas done up in large knobs. After leaving Monsieur Kigot we went to visitMahazoarivo, a country-house belonging to theQueen on the Ikopo river. The grounds werecuriously laid out — a mixture of grandeur anddilapidation; but the place had to my mind oneredeeming feature, the beautiful violet lotus-flowerswith which part of the river was covered. Thatnight we all adjourned to dine with the doctor inhis little house in the middle of the town. We gothome early, and sat on our balcony watching thebonfires lit in many parts
. Round the black man's garden . disposed around his head and neck; his hairwas done up in large knobs. After leaving Monsieur Kigot we went to visitMahazoarivo, a country-house belonging to theQueen on the Ikopo river. The grounds werecuriously laid out — a mixture of grandeur anddilapidation; but the place had to my mind oneredeeming feature, the beautiful violet lotus-flowerswith which part of the river was covered. Thatnight we all adjourned to dine with the doctor inhis little house in the middle of the town. We gothome early, and sat on our balcony watching thebonfires lit in many parts of the capital, this beingthe last night of the Fondroana. The flames shotup spasmodically, giving a ghostly appearance tothe groups of natives in their white lambas, andthrowing strong weird shadows on the red brickhouses. 184 THE ISLAND OF MYSTERY. On Sunday morning I went with Monsieur deVilers to the Eonian Catholic church, which wasvery crowded, and where we heard good the afternoon we kept our promise to Bishop. Articles of Malagasy JSIamifact lire. 1. Fans. 2. Coloured straw-boxes. 3. Bamboo snuff-box. 4. Straw-boxes. 5. Open work-box. 6. Gourd snuff-box. 7. Model of vcidsisjilanzana. 8. Model of womans/f/a«2a«a. 9. Seed snuff-box. Cornish, and went to tea with him after the evening Monsieur de Vilers gave a dinner-party to the Eoman Catholic Bishop, who came PKEPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. 185 accomiDanied by three other priests. Towards theend of dinner, conversation somehow turned on myhaving lived so much in the south of France, whichseemed to rouse their interest, and in the drawing-room I found myself sitting on a sofa with theBishop beside me and tw^o of his priests of them having been born and bred in thePyrenees, great was their delight when I begantalking Bearnais to them, which they showed byalternately rubbing their hands over and over, thensuddenly bringing down the outspread palms vio-lently on their knees, and at short i
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