tJO VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



and the affembly, faid, " Are not thefe your 

 *' iateft wifhes T'— The cry of '* Yes'* then 

 refoimded from all quarters, iDtermixed with 

 fi'iouts of praife and approbation. 



When this noife had fubfided, the orator 

 cried cut with a voice like thunder, You 



hear, Bigorne, the wilh of the Palabr€\ 

 " it is the law of the chiefs, it is the deftre 

 " of the people who trade with the whiter. 

 " Explain fully to your mailers what I have 

 " juft now propofed.^ — If they accept thefe 

 " conditions, we fliall confirm the treaty 

 ** by a folemn facrifice. If they will not 

 " accept it, they may depart* We have no 

 ** provifions to give them." 



Bigorne tranflated word for Avord to M* 

 Pcivre the fpeech which I have here relat- 

 ed ; and the latter was obliged to interpofe 

 his authority, in order to prevent him from 

 reproaching the orator for his vehemence. 

 Bigorne was not accuflouied to be treated 



with 



