3^2 VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR, 



people were juft read/ to go €»,gi^ fliore, a 

 volley from Beiiyowfki*s troops left them 

 la no doubt refpeillng the hoflHe intentions 

 of that adventurer. A few cannon Hiots, 

 however, difperfed the enemy, who were 

 feen retreating into the woods ; and after 

 they had difappeared, a defcent was effeded 

 w^hhout impediment or diforder. M* Mar- 

 cher, at the head of hrs men, wifhed to 

 march diredly towards Benyowfki*s fettle* 

 ment; but he was unwilling to entangle 

 himfclf in the thick woods, where it would 

 have been inipoflible for him to make ufe 

 of his artillery. The iflanders therefore, 

 who ferved him as guides, conducted him 

 by a more open route, which would^ how* 

 ever, have prefented infurmountable obfta- 

 cies had it been guarded and defended. 



M, Larcher had five marfhes, and a bad 

 bridge, ninety feet long, to crofs, before he 

 could arrive at Benyowfki's fettkment. It 



may 



