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50 VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. ciiai\ li. lofty mountains of varied form, conical or peaked with broad shoulders, on which the clouds often rested, rising above the wooded ravine, with the fertile or rocky hills and vales, and, nearer the sea, the neat white villas, generally embowered among trees, and the wide-spreading cane-fields in fresh and lively green, all combined to produce an amount of pleasure which, while we looked upon them, almost made us forget for a time the discomfort of our position. At length, after being tantalised till midnight, on the 1st of September we anchored near the bell buoy outside the harbour, and were towed into the inner harbour by a steam tug early on the following morning. We lost no time in proceeding to the shore and seeking our friends, grateful for the Divine protection and goodness we had experienced amid the perils of the deep,- through which we had been so mercifully preserved.