VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. igg 



tion of their marltitne forces prevented the 

 pirates from interrupting commerce my 

 more, and compelled them to quit the 

 wretched eftablifhment which they had 

 formed at St. Mary, an iOand in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Madagafcar. 



Thefe bandittij however, being thus 

 forced to renounce their former wandering 

 kind of life, began to think of fignaiifmg 

 themfelves by new a£ts of atrocity. As they 

 could no longer exercife with advantage 

 their infamous employment, in fertile coun- 

 tries where all property is confounded, and 

 being too inferior iu number to fubdue the 

 iflanders, one would have thought that no 

 other means of doing mifchief were left for 

 them than to attempt to promote difcord 

 among tlie inhabitants : but had they con- 

 fined themfelves merely to the exciting of 

 quarrels and war among the Jslalegaches, 

 this flame probably would have been foon 

 O 4 extin- 



