VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



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Read of profiting hj the leflbn given him, 

 formed the fatal rcfolution of carrying fire 

 and the fword amoBgfl: the Malegaches. He 

 fet out, therefore, at the head of thirty 

 Frenchmen, followed by a fmall army of 

 Manamboulefc ; flaughtered without dif- 

 tindion both women and children ; fet fir? 

 to all the villages which he found in the 

 ccarfe of his march ; and took poffeffion of 

 the dome of Dian Manangue. Father Man- 

 nier, the only miflionary who remained, 

 carried his flandard during this bloody and 

 inhuman expedition, on the particulars of 

 w^Eich I fhall not farther enlarge. An eye- 

 Vitnefs, who was afterwards provincial 

 commiflary of artillery, publiflied an ac- 

 count of it In 1722, in a work entitled, ^ 

 Voyage fa Madagafcar^ by Af F, 



The manufcripts which fumlflied me 

 with materials for this relation do not agree 

 in every point with that author ^ but it ap- 

 H 5 pears, 



