HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
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Instead of adopting such a mode of policy as might even 
then have averted the dangers threatened to the colony, 
the governor resolved to revenge the death of his country¬ 
men by carrying fire and sword into the interior of the 
country. Putting himself at the head of forty Frenchmen 
and a body of Manamboslese, while Father Manuer, the 
only surviving priest, carried the bloody banner, he set out 
on his barbarous expedition. Neither age nor sex found 
mercy at his hands; but in every village that lay in his 
way, men, women, and children were murdered without 
distinction. The deserted dwelling of Manango was 
razed to the ground; and such was the desolation that 
marked his course, as to fix infamy and execration on 
his character in connexion with the transactions of that 
campaign. 
The natives, seeing no hope of successfully opposing his 
march, took care to remove every thing that could contri¬ 
bute to the support of the invaders: and thus situated, 
Chamargou at last found himself under the necessity of 
returning to Fort Dauphin, from the want of provisions. 
While about to pass the river Mandrare, Andrian Manongo, 
who had been watching his motions, appeared on the oppo¬ 
site bank, wearing the cloak and cap of Father Stephen, 
while with an army of six thousand men he disputed the 
passage of the French. The fate of the colony would have 
been determined at this juncture but for the seasonable 
arrival of La Case, accompanied by ten Frenchmen, and 
three thousand natives, subjects of Andrian Nong. This 
brave officer, instantly plunging into the river, attacked 
Manango, notwithstanding the disparity of numbers; and 
such was the terror inspired by his name, that the opposing 
army was instantly put to flight. The chief himself would 
have fallen a sacrifice, had not Rabaze, a courageous chief, 
