X^OYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, I 2 J? 



which the minifter had entertained, it 

 waa becaufe eveiy colony, not founded 

 on the happinefs and inftrudlion of thofe 

 people among whom an attempt is made to 

 eilabHlh it, will always have temporary fuc- 

 cefs only. It is not foldiers but artifans, 

 farmers, and well-informed and laborious 

 men, that ought to be eftablifhed among 

 fuch people. We ought never to forget that 

 the treaties of favages with the Europeans 

 are, in every refpe^b, like thofe which chil- 

 dren would make with philofophers j and 

 fince the treaties hitherto formed with the 

 Malegaches are evidently in that fituation, 

 it would be highly unjuft to take advantage 

 of them contrary to the interefls of thefe 

 iHanders. There are none but ftupid or 

 diftioneft men who can affix a value to con- 

 trads fo ridiculoufly illufory* You have 

 obtained by cunning : you have by force 

 extorted conceffions from the credulous in* 



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