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crew, con filling chief! j'- of blacks, took re 

 fuge upon this fmall ifland. During fix 

 . months which they remained on ir, they 

 conflru£ted a chaloope from the remains of 

 their ihip, in which the whites embarked, 

 and without any accident reached St* Mary, 

 in the ifland of Madagafcar, after a very 

 fhoit paHagc. The blacks remained upon 

 the fhoal, always waiting, but in vain, to 

 receive fopie affiftauce from the whites* 

 Every man polTefTed of the leafl humanity 

 muftbe ftruckwith horror, when he knows 

 that thefe poor blacks were fufFered to periOi 

 in great mifcry, and that no attempt was 

 made to fave them* 



A corvette, called La Dmphlne^ com- 

 manded by M. de Tromelin, a lieutenant in 

 the navy, and brother to the gentleman be- 

 fore mentioned, fell In with the lile of 

 Sable on tlie 29th of November 1776, 

 Having by his fkill and abilities overcome 



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