^^04 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR* 



*t lAjiTonnded hy pali fades abfolutcly rotten. 



Four three-paunders were tlie formidable 

 ** artillery which, on the one hand, w^i;eto 

 " prote^ the navigation of the river Liu- 



guebate, and on the other to defend the 

 ** grand eftabliHiment which he propofed 

 ** to form at the bottom of the fort, and to 

 'V which he had already given the name of 

 ** tlie fown of ihe Plain of Healik 



This town confifted, when we faw it, 



pf a magazine fifty feet in length, and thlr- 

 " ty in breadth J and of two other fmaller 

 ** edifices, one of which was intt ndcd for 

 ** an hofpital'j and the other for barracks. 



M. de Belcombe, in my pre fence, afked 

 ** Benyoulki, if he had nothing more to 

 *' ihew him. Benyowlki, without being 

 " in the lead difconcerted, replied, My forts 

 *f protect the navigation of the import- 

 " ant river Linguebate, and the free navi- 

 ** gat ion of this river renders me abfolute 



** mafter 



