Crossword-Solution: SAKALAVA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

They have been in touch with whites for fifty years.[1677] The chiefs of the Niam Niam take their daughters to wife.[1678] The Sakalava, on Madagascar, allow brother and sister to marry, but before such a marriage the bride is sprinkled with consecrated water and prayers are recited for her happiness and fecundity, as if there were fears that the union was not pleasing to the higher powers, and as if there was especial fear that there might be no offspring.

Carvings in the round (men and animals) are found amongst the Sakalava and Bara, in relief (arabesques, etc.) among the Betsileo and others.

They came as far south as within forty miles of the capital! At one village in the Vònizòngo district four men were killed, and thirty women and children carried off to be sold to the Sakalava tribe on the west coast.

The town of KINAJY is the first of a series of military stations, five in number, in the direction of the Sakalava country, and along the line of easiest access.

But the population is thin and scattered: the Sakalava villages consist of ten, fifteen, twenty houses; and they are few and far between.