24^ VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR. 



prefent was publicly given to them? Bi-» 

 gorne, however, who was highly irritated 

 at Rabefifi's fpeech, did not fufFer M, 

 Poivre to be ignorant, that all his efforts 

 would have been of no avail, had not this 

 orator, won over by prefents before the pa/a- 

 hre^ formally acceded to every thing afked, 

 without the participation of John Harre 

 and the other chiefs. This fadt xs highly 

 deferving of remarki as it took place among 

 favages, where fincerity* and ftill more the 

 dread of breaking a folemn oath, obliges 

 every individual to adhere to whatever !ias 

 been agreed upon, under the fevereft penal- 

 ties. 



The morning after the conclufion of the 

 treaty, the market at Foulepointe was 

 ftored with every thing in abundance : the 

 veifels, therefore, made hafte to take in 

 their quantity of provifions ; which they did 

 foon, and at a very fmall expence. 



When 



