VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAK. 2 1 



lioodj or feeble old age, of its fubfiftencc, 

 even when he is obliged to expofe himfelf 

 to danger and fatigue, in order to procure 

 wherewithal to fatisfy his hunger* In fliort, 

 it is to this noble organization that the favage 

 is indebted for that averfion w^hich he has 

 to hurt his own fpecies; and this natural and 

 involuntary fentiment luckily does not de* 

 pend on the principles of education. 



The Malegache, as well as the favage, is 

 abfolute matter of himfelf ; his freedom is 

 confined by no check or reftraint; he goes 

 wherever he thinks proper, a£ts as he 

 choofes, and does, what he pleafes, except 

 what may hurt a fellow-creature* It never 

 entered the mind of a Malegache to attempt 

 to domineer over the thoughts or adions of 

 any one : each individual has his own pe- 

 culiar manner of living ; and his neighbour 

 never diflurbs him, nor even thinks of at- 

 tempting it. In this refped thefe illanders 

 C 3 are 



