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TAMATAVE (called by the natives Tbamdsina)

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TAMATAVE (called by the natives Tbamdsina) , the
chief
  seaport of Madagascar, situated nearly on the centre of the eastern
coast
  in 18 ro' S., 490 32' E. It owes its importance to the existence of a coral
reef
 , which forms a spacious and fairly commodious harbour, entered by two openings. The town is built on a sandy peninsula which projects at right angles from the general
coast
 -line. On this are crowded together a considerable number of houses, with good shops and merchants' offices in the main thoroughfares. Tamatave is the seat of several foreign consuls, as well as of numerous French officials, and is the
chief
  port for the
capital
  and the interior. Imports consist principally of piece-goods, farinaceous foods, and iron and steel goods, and exports of gold dust, raffia, hides, caoutchouc and live animals. Communication with Europe is maintained by steamers of the Messageries Maritimes and the Havraise companies, and also with Mauritius, and from thence to
Ceylon
 , by the British
Union
 -Castle line. Of the whole foreign
trade
  of Madagascar, 46 per cent. is through Tamatave. Owing to the character of the soil and the formerly crowded native
population
 , the town has often been attacked by epidemics: the plague broke out in 1898, and again in 1900; but since the draining of the neighbouring marshes, there has been improvement. Since 1895 the native
population
  has been removed from the town and settled in a new
village
  to the north-west. A telegraph, 18o miles in length, connects Tamatave with the
capital
 . There is also a service, partly by railway and partly by steamer, along the coast lagoons, connecting the port with Antananarivo. Pop. about 4600.


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