274 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



*' pleafed to order mc a fpeedy pafTage to 

 " Europe. 



'* I fliall every where acknowledge this 

 ** favour received from your friendlliip, and 

 " fliall be eternally devoted to your fer- 

 *' vice, 



*< I am your Excellency*s 



Ifie of France, 



March 21, i77«. '* mofl humbJe fervant^ 



" Baron Maurice Auguftus d'AIadar de 

 " Benyowiki, 

 " Genernl of the firft coiifcderadon.^ 



ONE cannot help feeling feme emotions 

 of furprife on feeing that Benyowfki has 

 omitted every thing that might have tended 

 to dired navigators in the route from Kam- 

 fchatka to China, by the way of Japan. 

 Nothing is neceffary but the elements of the 

 nautical fcience to enable one to remark 

 foundings and anchorage ; to point out the 



ftrength 



