IIO VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



in a country where Jie had always been 

 firft, had contributed not a little to the fail- 

 ure of an enterprize, the injuftice of which 

 tliey had not even deigned to conceal. How- 

 ever this may be, La Haye was fo much de- 

 je^cd by the mifcariiage of his Jirft expe- 

 dition^ that he refolved to abandon Fort 

 Dauphin^ and to carry his forces to Surat, 

 after having vifited the ifland of Mafcarcn* 

 has, fmce called the Ifle of Bourbon. . 



The pride of this governor was very 

 much hurt to think, that the whole extent 

 of his authority was not fufficient to prevent 

 C^iamargOQ, who had the faperiority over 

 him in point of local knowledge, from be- 

 ing able, by fecret machinations, to coun- 

 terad, at his pleafure, the operations which 

 he wilhed to carry into effea. 



La Haye*s departure was followed by the 

 dcatli of the brave La Cafe ; and it w^as not 



difficult 



