Excerpt from The Encyclopædia of Missions, Vol. 2: Descriptive, Historical, Biographical, Statistical

The crisis which came so suddenly was said to have been brought about by the following incident: An in¿uential chief appeared before the queen, and requested that a bright and sharp spear might be brought, saying that he could not. But see with grief the dishonor done, both to the idols and the memory of the queen's predecessors, by the doctrines of the foreigners, and how the ancient customs were being de stroyed, and the new faith was spreading on every hand, that this would soon be followed by the invasion of Madagascar by the Euro peans, and as he would rather die than see his sovereign and country so disgraced, he asked for a spear to pierce his heart before that evil day came.

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