Excerpt from Three Visits to Madagascar During the Years 1853, 1854, 1856: Including a Journey to the Capital, With Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilisation of the People

I am indebted to photography for the chief part of the illustrations of the volume. The different portraits, some of which exhibit remarkable heads, are all from photo graphs taken in the country. Several of the views, as well as the representations of a number of trees and plants, were obtained by the same means, or from sketches made, with one or two exceptions, while the objects were before me. The ouvirandra was drawn from a plant brought to this country, and I beg to return my sincere thanks to the proprietors of Knight's Museum of Animated Na ture, for the use of three illustrations of subjects of Natural History.

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