Thirty years in Madagascar

THIRTY YEARS IN MADAGASCAR
OXFORD
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
THE REV. T. T. MATTHEWS.
BY THE REV. T. T. MATTHEWS
OF THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY
WITH SIXTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS AND SKETCHES
SECOND EDITION
LONDON THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
4 BOUVERIE STREET AND 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD 1904
For the facts of the historical introduction I am mainly indebted to the writings of earlier writers and missionaries, and to unpublished native accounts of the earlier years of the mission and of the persecutions; for mine would have been almost impossible had it not been for the labours of those other workers in the same field, and for the native sources I have mentioned. Without such knowledge as this introduction gives no correct conception can be formed of Madagascar and the Malagasy, of the work done for and among them, the present condition and future prospects of the people, and of the future of Christian work in the island.
I have been also indebted to a long course of reading on mission work at large, and on the work in Madagascar in particular. Much of this has become so mingled with my own thoughts that I cannot now possibly trace all the sources of it; but I have tried, as far as I could, to make acknowledgement of all the sources of information to which I have been indebted, and special acknowledgement of those more recent sources of information not alluded to in any other book on Madagascar. There are many things in this book derived from native sources that have not been utilized before.