VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 0^ 



by a body of .armed blacks, to bum and ra- 

 vage the fertile country of Fanfhere. The 

 manner in which I'lacourt violated that 

 hofpitality wliich had been fo generoufly 

 fhewn to him, cannot be defended in an 

 enlightened age* I am inclined to believe, 

 that every man, hereafter, who has the leaft 

 regard for virtue or humanity, will fly 

 from foreign lands, and renounce every 

 commercial advantage, rather than imitate 

 the barbarous condud of this governor, 

 Inftead of making favage nations v/ear our 

 chains, let us impart to them our fciences, 

 and our knowledge* People funk in the 

 darknefs of ignorance, and intimidated by 

 the fuperiority of our arms, cannot certainly 

 avoid the yoke which we are pleafed to lay 

 upon them ; but what right is more iniqui- 

 tous than that of force ? And how dare We 

 at prefent accufe favagc nations of tiea- 

 chery, when, harafled by our tyranny, they 



have 



