72 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



fioh J peace and abundance followed him 

 to Fort Dauphin ; aftd dmng thft, time 

 that he direded it by his coLinfel, diforder 

 and want ceafcd to afflid thateftablUlimeat, 



Dian-Nong behaved witli no lefa gene- 

 rofily than La. Cafe ; and fuch is the 

 force of virtue, that there w^s not a fingie 

 Frenchman who was not fenfibly afFe£led by 

 the heroic courage of this woman, who 

 had fufEcient command over herfelf to ba- 

 ni{l\ all remembrance of the injuries done 

 to her hufband. She gave way to that 

 fweet Impulfe, or rather innate defire, which 

 inclines man to affifl his fellow-creatures, 

 when he fees them in diftrefs. 



The counfellor fliared with his friend Kcr- 

 cadio the happinefs of having brought back 

 peace and plenty to Fort Dauphin ; but ' 

 without forgetting the deteftable ftratagem 

 by which he had been torn from his bufi- 

 nefS| and bis favourite purfuits. He had 



been 



