TOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 19 



tiieir tips are thin ; and their features are 

 regiilar and agreeable. Thefe people ge- 

 nerally difplay in their countenance a pecu- 

 liar charaiflelr of franknefs and good- nature. 

 They hever Ihew any defire of learning 

 but things which relate to the fimplefl wants 

 of mankind ; and this defire is always ex- 

 tremely moderate: they are very indifferent 

 refpe£ting knowledge which cannot be ob- 

 tained without reflexion. A natural want 

 of care, and a general apathy renders every 

 thing infupportable to them that requires 

 attention. Sober, light and adive, they fpend 

 the greater part of their lives in fleeping, 

 iand in amufmg thetnfelves. 



The Mai egache^ like the favage, is defti- 

 tute both of virtue and vice. To him the 

 prefent is every thing ; he is fufceptible of 

 lio kind of forefight j and he does not even 

 conceive that there are men On the eatth who 

 give themfelves uneafinefs refpedling futu- 

 C z rity* 



