View of Ambohimanga du Sud, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar, ca. 1865-1885

"Ambòhimànga, from the North, Antsàhamànitra Church". View of village houses, church and hills. Indigenous group seated to right.; John Parrett served as a printer for the London Missionary Society in Madagascar from 1862 to 1885, first at the capital Tananarive [now Antananarivo] then, following a period of furlough in England from 1873 to 1875, at Amparibe. Parrett sailed to Madagascar in 1862 as part of a large missionary party comprising Dr and Mrs Andrew Davidson , Mr and Mrs Robert Toy, schoolmaster Charles Thomas Stagg and Mrs Stagg, Reverend John Duffus and Reverend William Edward Cousins. The party was sent to aid Reverend William Ellis who had pioneered the re-introduction of missionaries to Madagascar in 1862 on the accession of King Radama II to the throne, following the death of Queen Ranavalona I in 1861.

安博希曼加（Ambòhimànga），地处北部，毗邻安察哈马纳特拉教堂（Antsàhamànitra Church）。画面展现了村落房舍、教堂与丘陵的景致，右侧坐着原住民群体。
约翰·帕雷特（John Parrett）于1862年至1885年间任职于马达加斯加的伦敦传道会（London Missionary Society），最初在首都塔那那利佛（原拼写为Tananarive，现名安塔那那利佛（Antananarivo））工作；1873年至1875年在英国休假后，他转至安帕里贝（Amparibe）任职。
1862年，帕雷特随一支大型传教使团乘船前往马达加斯加，该使团成员包括安德鲁·戴维森博士及其夫人、罗伯特·托伊夫妇、教师查尔斯·托马斯·斯塔格及其夫人、约翰·达弗斯牧师以及威廉·爱德华·卡曾斯牧师。
该使团受命协助威廉·埃利斯牧师——1861年拉纳瓦洛娜一世女王驾崩，拉达马二世国王登基后，埃利斯牧师于1862年率先重启向马达加斯加派遣传教士的工作。