VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 1 73 



** Flacourt calls thefe dwarfilh people 

 " pigmies, and mixes their hiftory with 

 ** that of a pretended race of giants, who, 

 ** as the ancieut tradition of Madagafcar 

 " affures us, occafioned formerly great ra- 

 " vagc in the ifland. Flacourt relates, after 

 *' thefe players on the herrmn^ that the 

 *- pigmies fonie time ago invaded the coun^ 

 ** try of Anoflij from which they were 

 ** driven by the Etanos, who are the origi- 

 " nal inhabitants of that diftria. The 

 *' Etanos furrounded the pigmies on the 

 ** banks of the river Itapera, and having 

 ** maffacred them all^ afterwayds heaped 

 *' together in that fpot a multitude of ftones, 

 " to cover the bodies of their enemies, and 

 ** to ferve as monuments of the \idory 

 ** which they had gained over them* 



** After procuring at Fort Dauphin and 

 " the neighbourhood all the information 

 ** poffible, I refulvcd to fend a detachment 

 3 '* to 



