THE QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR.
The Queen of Madagascar is known as Ranavalona 111. She is an exceedingly ladylike person, 34 years of age, with attractive features, a queon-like manner of bearing herself, and a clear way of expressing herself when she comes ta the royal kabary in a palanquin, and sits on her golden throne with a gold sceptre in her right hand, amid her thirty lai'ies clad in biilliant-hued silk? trimmed with gold and silver, straw hats and high-heeled patent leather bouts. The Queen on such occasions is addicted to a rich white silk dress, embroidered with gold. Her mantle is of ruby velvet, and her bonnet, of the same colour, is trimmed with ostrich feathers, while her lingers and arms are covered with jewelled rings and massive gold bracelets of native workmanship. She is very J popular among her subjects.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 147, 25 September 1895, Page 3
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142THE QUEEN OF MADAGASCAR. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 147, 25 September 1895, Page 3
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