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The main body of the troops being assembled, the king, 
on the same day, gave orders that the words of command 
used in the army, should be changed from the English 
language into native. From this time forward, Malagasy 
only was to be used. 
Before setting out on his march to the coast, Radama 
received two visitors, Lieutenants Cole and Campbell, at 
the capital, with his wonted hospitality and kind attention ; 
and about the latter end of June, he set out, taking with 
him about one thousand five hundred of his troops, and 
leaving General Rafozehana in command at Tananarive. 
In the following month, General Brady left the capital 
with an army of about nine thousand troops, and five thou¬ 
sand people carrying baggage. They were sent on an 
expedition into Yangaidrano, in the south of Madagascar, 
to make war on the chieftain Rabedoka. More than nine 
months were employed in the subjugation of this province, 
the population being numerous, and the opposition formid¬ 
able. Rabedoka was at last made prisoner, with upwards 
of twenty of his principal nobles, and, on refusing to submit, 
was finally put to death. His nobles also, with a fidelity 
and patriotism which can scarcely be contemplated without 
admiration, choosing to share the fate of their leader, rather 
than acknowledge the sovereignty of Radama, were mas¬ 
sacred in cold blood. Parts of the body of the chieftain 
were brutally and wantonly affixed by the Hova soldiers to 
long poles, and placed at the entrance of the town where he 
had resided. Two thousand of the inhabitants of the 
province are said to have fallen in this war; and many who 
were taken prisoners, were sold for slaves at the capital. 
The army returned to Imerina in January, 1828 , bringing 
with them immense numbers of cattle, which they had, in 
their career of murder and plunder, seized as booty, and 
