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but could not diftihguifli whether tfiey were of 

 Spaniards or Tndians, 



It has fmce been called the Dauphin ifle'^. It 

 Was peopled by degrees ; they built magazines, 

 'a fort, and barracks there. 



In 



* It mull: not be confounded with that which is mentioned 

 in the relation of the fg-lt voyage of the Eaft India company 

 to the ifle oi Madagafcar^ which they called too precipitate- 

 ly the Dauphins ill and. 



The author of this relation, who wrote in 1665, and had 

 vdone that fame voyage, agrees that the EngUJh and Dutch, 

 who -wd-e already eftabliihed in In^ifi^ y(Qxc the models 

 which M, de Coil;ert -pro^oCtd to imitate, and afterwards to 

 furpafs ; but all the projects of that worthy minifter proved 

 at)Drtive, both by the imprudence and vanity peculiar to tBe 

 nation, and by the milmanagement of thofe wiib were at the 

 head of affairs. 



The fame author adds, that he only found there " violent 

 '* and unCcilful men, ill chofen officers, incapable of theoc- 

 ** cupation they were intended for; whereas they ought to 

 ** have been men above the coarfer paffions, with no other 

 " inclinations than for the good pf their. cpuiUry, which 

 ** ought to be the rule by which everyone ihould be guided 

 ** who wilhes to acquit himfelf with honour.'* 



It feems to me, that this ufeful leiTon fiiould be graved in- 

 to the hearts oi all thofe who go to our colonies with fome 

 authoritj'i .iS't.* 



. I have 



