ISB VOYAGE TO MABAGASCAU, 



** thing from the funds fent to the Ifle of 

 ** France to defray the expence of ereding 

 ** them, 



** The only increafe^ which the propofed 

 " eftablrfhment will add to the expence of 

 ** the ifles of France and Bourbon, will be for 

 " the officers and people employed. This 

 ** fum, however^ will not be confiderable j 

 for it will not amount to forty thoufand 

 ** livres. I value at S$^SA^ livrf!S the 

 different utenfils, and articles of merchan* 

 " dizci which muft be taken from the ft ores, 

 ** in the Ifle of France, to fuppiy with pro- 

 ** vifions and other neceflaries this new co- 

 f lony, with the management of which the 

 " minifter has been pleafed to intruft me." 



Such is the memoir which ferved as a 

 bafis for the French eftabliihment at Fort 

 Dauphin, under the diredion of M. de 

 Modave. If the refult of this new enter* 

 prize did not correfpond with the hopes 



which 



