5a VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



guilty of a new crime, by publicly felling to 

 Vander Mefter, the governor of MauritmSt 

 at prefeEt called the Ifle of France, all the 

 unfortunate Malegaches who were in the 

 feryice of the eftabiiihment. What ralfed 

 the indignation of the iflanders to the 

 higheft pitch upon this occafion was, that 

 there were amongft thefe flaves fixteen wo- 

 men of the race of the Lohavohits. 



When the company wg-e informed of 

 this fhan:)eful conduil, they deprived Pronis 

 of his commiffion. Fiacourt was cKofen 

 to fucceed him ; but he did not arrive at 

 Fort Dauphin till towards the end of De- 

 cember 1648. As he has pubiifhed a mi- 

 nute account of every thing which took place 

 under his adminiftration, I fhall not here 

 trace out a pidure of the cruelty, injuftice, 

 and oppredon, which that governor exer- 

 cifed towards the unfortunate iflanders. In 

 i66i he fent forty Frenchmen, followed 

 2 by 



