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pression of petty warfare. They unanimously promised to 
furnish the seeds and plants required of them, and volun¬ 
teered to send two hundred men to carry what they should 
collect; at the same time requesting that the whole party 
would enter their villages, and supply themselves with such 
provisions as they might be in need of. 
These promises were strictly observed by the Antsianaka 
people; and besides the burdens of the two hundred volun¬ 
teers which they had prepared, they brought into the camp 
large quantities of every article cultivated in their district ; 
so that each individual in the detachment might take with 
him as much as he felt inclined to carry. 
On the 6th of July the party reached Foule Point, and 
as soon as time had been given for an assemblage of the 
people from the surrounding neighbourhood, a kabary was 
held, at which Prince Rafaralahy, having clearly stated that 
the establishment was formed purely for the sake of en¬ 
couraging agriculture and manufactures, and promoting 
the interests of the country by opening a liberal commerce, 
adverted to the laws of Hovah, which secured all property, 
and entirely suppressed both theft and trespass, all which 
he enjoined the party strictly to observe. He then ex¬ 
plained, that no monopoly of trade of any description would 
be sanctioned ; that the market for exported and imported 
goods, should be free to every class on their paying the 
established dues; and that the person who earned most, 
in short, who manufactured, or bought, and sold most, 
would best meet the approbation of his king. 
To this the prince added, that as it appeared to him 
to be a duty incumbent upon him to endeavour to en¬ 
courage the industrious, he would allot to every applicant 
a portion of land, to pursue such avocation as he might 
choose; and though it was stipulated that the whole 
