2T4 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 



vitStims facrificed to the infatiable avarice 

 of a few plunderers I 



Ye juft and compafHonate, behold what 

 it has coft, in blood and criines, to bring 

 your colonies to that kind of profperity, 

 the greater part of the advantages of which 

 you dally hear exaggerated; as if that pro- 

 fperity, always precarious, were not more 

 apparent than real ; fince the opulence of 

 a few is founded only on the mifcry and 

 flavery of the multitude* 



The flave-trade* after having ferved to 

 eflablifh the power of the pirates, was of no 

 utility to their children. 



Tanifimalo, fon to the daughter of a 

 powerful chief, by an old pirate, celebrated 

 for his cunning and depredations, feized the 

 fovereign power after the death of his fa- 

 ther. His reign was fignallzcd by no extra?- 

 ordrnary event, but bis memory is ftill ve- 

 nerated amongft thefe people j and his re- 



fpeded 



