Madagascar Mauritius And the Other East African Islands
Madagascar Mauritius And the Other East African Islands
C Conrad Keller
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This was formerly common and was one material cause of the slow increase of the i^opulation. Certain numbers are lucky, others unlucky; the Bara have a great objection to the number one, so one must never offer them a single object. The Hova assign an unlucky significance to . Sv'. R and eight, while tivelvc is an especially luck\' numl)er. Fabulous beasts and plants play no light part in the imagination of the Malagasy. Thus they have made up the So7igoinb)\ a swift-footed animal as big as an ...ox. That devours men, and the nocturnal Tokaii-dia whose fore feet and hind feet have grown together in one piece, but which none the less runs with fabulous speed ; then there is a rare beast with red horns which is said to live in the water. Some years ago a notice went the round of the papers, describing a man-eating tree, the crown of which had flex- ible snakelike appendages, and which formed the object of religious worship; but in this cast, ' it seems that the fancy of a traveller outstripped even that of the inhabitants.
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