VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 



** This large quantity of provUion wasfolely 



defined for the Ifle of France, which three 

 ** fuccelTive hurri anes hud reduced to a moft 

 ** akrminglUte of diilrefs. AlUhecrops were 

 ** loft ; a dreadful famine, the inevitable con- 

 **. fequence of thefe f^ourges, threatened the 

 ** colony with ruin ; and ihe fe verity of it 

 ** began evea to be felt when the Ipeedy 

 '* arrival of tjiefe ten vefTels, loaded with 

 ** rice, quieted the uneafinefs of the inhabU 

 ** tants, in the fir fl: moments of ilieir diftrcfs, 

 ** If, on this occafion as on many others^ 

 ** Foulepointe faved the llle of Ftance, we 

 ** could no longer hope for the iame 



afiiilance, Tlie fields were unculti- 

 ** vated^ and commerce entirely unuihiht* 



ed. The defpoufm of Btnyowiki had 

 ** fprcad a general alarm throughout the 



ifland. The IVIalt'gaches in conilernation 

 ** fled from the borders of tlic fea, and rc- 



tired to the interior parts of the country. 



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