lyS VOYAGE TO MADAGASC-AR. 



*/ who had burnt feveral of their villages, 

 ** He boafted* alfo, of having in his pofTef- 

 •* fion a man and a woman of that race, 

 ** who he faid were about the age of twenty, 

 ** or twenty- five* 



** From the accounts of this chief and 

 " Remouzai, I am inclined to think, that 

 ** the valley of the Kimos is abundant in 

 *^ cattle and provifions of every kind. Thefe 

 ** little people arc induftrious, and apply 

 " with much fkill and labour to the cuhi- 

 ** vation of the earth. Tlieir chief enjoys 

 ** a much more abfolute authority, and is 

 " more refpeded, than any of the other 

 " chiefs in the different diftriQs of Mada- 

 ** gafcan I was not able to learn the extent 

 " of the valley which they inhabit, I know 



only that it is futrounded by very high 

 ** mountains ; that it is filuated at the dif- 

 " tance of ilxty leagues to the north- weft of 

 ** Fort Dauphin j and that it is bounded on 



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