VOTAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 49 



of the fire may not be too difagreeable to 

 the patient. Thefe favage people thus know 

 how to deliver themfelves happily, and 

 in lefs time than we, from that fcourge 

 which we introduced amongft them, and 

 which in Europe occafions fo much devaf- 

 tation. 



Moil travellers, inftead of lamenting that 

 the favages ever became acquainted with 

 the Europeans, feem to take delight in 

 throwing out every kind of invedive againft 

 them. It is thus that they have almoft al- 

 ways rewarded them for the hofpitality 

 which they fo generoufly and difmtereft- 

 edly fliewed towards us. If you read Fla- 

 courr''% you will imagine that the. ^alega- 



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♦ He was dire£tor-general of the Frer^Ii Eaft-India 

 Company, and in 1^48 had die management of an ex- 

 pedition in the ifland of Madagafcar, which, like all the 

 preceding, proved unfucccfsfuL This expedition, how- 

 ever, procured a very minute account of the ifland, 

 which Fbcouit was enabled to give, from having tc- 



t fidcd 



