VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 6/ 



are attached to the fovereign power. He 

 wiflbed only to be confidcred as the firft 

 fubje(£t of his ^ife^ w!io was declared fo- 

 vereign after the death of her father. La 

 Cafe, beloved by Diaa-Nong, who, to a 

 charming countenance, added great cou- 

 rage, and the rareft qualities y efteemed and 

 refpeded by his family, and the Amboulefei 

 to whom he was a father^ could only offer 

 up ineffedual vows for the profperity of th« 

 French eftablifhment at Fort Dauphin. 



He was not fuffered to go to the rehef of 

 his countrymen, whom he knew to be in 

 the utmoft diftrefs. Chamargou had fet a 

 price upon his head, as well as upon thofe 

 of the five Frenchmen who had followed 

 him to Amboule. The chiefs, who refided 

 in the neighbourhood of the fort, highly 

 irrit^Jted to hnd that an attempt fhould he 

 made againflthe life of a man for whom 

 they entertained thehighefl: veneration, una- 

 F 2 nimoufly 



