VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 95 



A brother of St. Lazarus, and another 

 Frenchman, with fix fervants or domeftlcs^ 

 ^ loaded with facerdotal habits, accompanied 

 him in this dangerous expedition. 



In the firft week of Lent^ 1664, Father 

 Stephen joined Dian Manangue^ after ex- 

 periencing much fatigue and a multitude of 

 difafters. The chief, more aftonifhed than 

 ala-med at the courage of the mifTionary, 

 behaved to him with the moft profound re- 

 verence, and received him in a manner 

 which he had no tide to exped. In vain 

 did he beg him to renounce the project 

 which he had formed of converting him ; 

 obferving, that his manners and ufages 

 were an iniuperable obftacle to fuch a change. 

 Father Stephen, •inflead of making any re- 

 ply, fnatched from him his oil and his amu- 

 lets, threw them into the fire, and declared 

 open war againfi: him. It need be no mat- 

 ter of furprife that this violent coaJud of 



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