Nothing is more wonderful in Madagascar than the great strides education has made.  Thirty years ago the language was unwritten.  Only one person, who had been educated in the Mauritius, could write, and that was in a foreign language.  Now, all the government officers can write, and all the business is transacted by writing, while all classes are greedy for instruction; indeed, we had great reason to believe that there are few more intelligent people than the inhabitants of that magnificent island.