JoS I'OYACE TO MADAGASCAR. 



** Bay of Antongil Some labour will be, 

 ** doubtlefsj neceflary to render this road 

 ** more pradicable ; but the prefent feafon, 

 " and my fituatioQ witii regard to the 

 ** iflanders, will not permit me^ for fome 

 '* time, to engage in that undertaking. If 

 ** you wifli, however J to explore this route, 

 ** I will accompany you ; and you will 

 then fee what difficulties I muft experi- 

 " ence, before I can overcome thofe obfta»- 

 " des which are to be furmounted, 



" M. de Belcombe had neither lelfure 

 nor incrmation to undertake a long and 

 *' difficult journey acrofs the ifland of Ma- 

 ** dagafcar, and he rightly conjedured that 

 ** Benyovrfki had not made the propofal 

 ** but from a certainty of being refufed* 

 " M. de Belcombe thought it his duty to 

 " obferve, that he was commiffioned to In- 

 ** fpeil works executed, and not works pro- 

 " jeded. Proceeding thea to a new quef- 



** tiOD, 



