332 VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. CHAP. XIL The market at this place was small, and only a few articles were exhibited; but the markets in this province are, many of them, especially those held near the capital, attended by multitudes of people from the surrounding villages, and con tain every kind of manufacture both native and foreign, as well as all kinds of native produce and articles of food. At winnowed away, and the bodies dried in the sun, or some times fried in fat, and then kept in sacks for food, or sent to the markets for sale. In some parts of Ankova and in the provinces of the Betsileo to the southward, grasshoppers and silkworms, in the chrysalis state, are collected in large quanti ties, cooked and eaten as food, or offered for sale. CATCHING LOCUSTS.