3ao VOYAGE TO MADACASCAS; 



fufFered that celebrated man to bn Ignorant 

 of what I knew rei'peding this adventurer, 

 Benyowfki, however, went to America, 

 where- he had fcarcely arrived when he 

 again formed a project of getting polTeflion 

 of Madagafcar ; and with that view pro- 

 ceeded to the Bay of Antongil, in an Ame- 

 rican veileL I am not acquainted with the 

 objed of this expedition j hut I know that 

 M. de Souiilac, the governor of the lile of 

 France, fent, on the 9th of May 17S6, a 

 veflel, called the Louifa, commanded by 

 Vifcount de la Croix, to oppofe Benyowfki*s 

 enterprifes j and caufed a detachment of 

 fixty men from the regiment of Pondi- 

 cherry, under the orders of M. Larch er, a 

 captain of infantry, to accompany him. 

 M. Mayeur, allb, the principal fador, em- 

 barked in the fame vefTel^ in order to give 

 M, Larcher every information neceffary to 

 counteract the views of Benyowlki j for it 



was 



