yoVAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 1 



^very method they could to render the 

 French name odious to thefe people, natu- 

 rally rnild^ hofpitable, and humane. 



Among the different memoirs which I 

 have confulted in compiling this hiftorical 

 account of the firft eftablifliments of the 

 French in the fouthern part of Madagaf- 

 car, I mufl make honourable mention of a 

 manufcript given me by M. de Malefherbe. 

 That minifter, dear to the fciences and to 

 letters, whofe venerable name is never pro- 

 nounced but accompanied with that tribute 

 of liomage and rerpe<a which are due to 

 knowledge united with virtue, had the 

 goodnefs to add to it a large map of Mada- 

 gafcar^ accurately delineated, and executed 

 with great care. That map, which he per- 

 mitted me to have reduced and engraved, 

 is prefixed to this work* 



The manufcript and the map which ac- 

 companied it were the produdion of M. 



I a Robert^ 



