VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR^ Q.^J 



bay of Antongil. My removal from tliat 

 port will alarm the merchants of Foule- 

 ** pointe ; the markets will no longer be fup- 

 ** plied J commerce wiU, in the mean time^ 

 ** fufFer ; and La Bigorne's chiefs will recal 

 " him to the Ille of France. My departure 

 *' from Foulepointe, therefore, feems to 

 ** promife me a fpeedy deliverance from my 

 ** moil formidable enemy." 



What John Harre had predided foon 

 afterwards took place. His defeat had oc- 

 cafioned great forrow at Foulepointej and 

 his departure put an entire ftop to com- 

 merce. Some of the chiefs, friends to B5- 

 gorne, made vain efforts to bring provifions 

 to the markets ; for the merchants at Foule- 

 polnte oppofed them as much as they could* 

 The French veflels, which had come to 

 that port for refrefhments, after endeavour- 

 ing, without effed, to reftore peace and 

 concord among thefe people, were obliged 

 R 4 to 



