266 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



" on the 26th, and begged me to relieve 

 " them. The affair was eafy. The lieute- 

 ** nant, who was on guard over me, having 

 " caufed arms to be carried privately to his 

 " habitation, fupplied me and all my com- 

 " panions, at the head of whom I took pof- 

 ** feflion of the fort on the night of the 27th* 

 *' In this adiion the governor and fome others 

 " were killed in the commencement of the 

 ** attack, while a few of my people only were 

 nightly wounded, 



*' Next morning, the foldiers and Cof» 

 " facks wifhed to enter fword in hand into 

 " the town of Boifao, the inhabitants of 

 " which, terrified, after the fecond and third 

 '* difcharge of our mufquetry, furrcndered 

 '* on the 29th of April. I entered trium- 

 " phantly into the town of Kamfchatka, 



and no one appeared to oppole me, I 

 ** immediately Tent people to feize the vef- 



l*els which were in the harbour ; and went 



" my felf 



