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HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
Mr. Bragg read the funeral service over the grave; and 
several of the natives attended on the occasion, but none 
of the traders. 
Mr. Bevan having been detained at the Mauritius by the 
illness of his wife, was not able to sail from Port Louis 
before the 27th of December. He then embarked in a 
vessel bound, in the first instance, for Foule Point, where 
he proposed recommencing his labours, as a Missionary in 
Madagascar. The chiefs at that place had expressed a 
desire to have their children educated, and the station 
appeared eligible. 
On the 6th of January, 1819, Mr. Bevan wrote to 
Mr. Jones, and stated his intention of proceeding to 
Tamatave. In the course of a few days he arrived in the 
harbour; and, at the very moment of landing, was told, in 
a manner the most heartless and indifferent, that Mrs. Jones 
and her child were both dead, and Mr. Jones himself near 
the close of his life. Such a communication, it may easily 
be supposed, deeply affected Mr. Bevan, and it was with 
some difficulty he could proceed to the residence of his 
friend. Having reached Mananarezo, he stood opposite 
the house in which Mr. Jones was at that time ill, and wept 
as he silently gazed on the house of mourning. Mr. Bragg 
met him, conducted him in, and conversed with him some 
time. From that hour Mr. Bevan expressed his firm con¬ 
viction, that he also should be seized with the fever, and 
certainly die. 
It is deeply to be regretted that such an apprehension 
should ever exist, still more so that it should be indulged, 
as the physical consequences it produces are always inju¬ 
rious, and often destructive of all hope of recovery; this 
dread of the fever having been known to induce it, or to 
accelerate its attacks, and render them fatal. 
