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HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. 
“We had hoped this communication might have been sent 
off, without announcing to you, illness or death; but the God 
in whose hands is our breath, and whose are all our ways, has 
ordained otherwise. Death has again visited our little circle. 
Mr. Rowlands came over from Angavo, to meet us at the Lord’s 
table, on the first Sabbath in March. In consequence of heavy 
rains, he had to wade several times through water. In a few days 
after his arrival, he was seized with the Madagasse fever while at 
Mr. Cummin’s. Having, in some degree, recovered, he went to 
spend a few days at Mr. Freeman’s, where he continued to improve. 
He afterwards suffered a relapse, and fell into a profound stupor 
on the afternoon of the 3d of April. After remaining twenty-seven 
hours in that state, he breathed his last at seven o’clock on the 
evening of the 4th of April. His death has, we trust, proved his 
immense, his eternal gain.” 
Letters having been received by the members of the 
Mission from the Rev. D. Tyerman, and G. Bennet, Esq., 
a deputation from the London Missionary Society to the 
South Seas, and other parts of the world, stating their 
intention of proceeding from Mauritius to visit Madagascar 
during the favourable season of 1828, the Rev. D. Jones 
proceeded to Tamatave to meet them, and to render assist¬ 
ance in their journey to Imerina. Letters were also for¬ 
warded to Messrs Tyerman and Bennet, informing them 
of the best time and mode of visiting the country, as well 
as of the provisions necessary for the journey, and presents 
for the royal family. The party reached the capital on the 
22dof July, 1328, the Rev. J. J. Freeman, with other mem¬ 
bers of the Mission, meeting them at Ambodinangavo, and 
accompanying them into the capital. 
The deeply afflictive and inscrutably mysterious events 
which almost immediately succeeded their arrival, afforded 
the deputation but just time to inquire into the state of 
affairs at the capital, before the Mission family had the 
melancholy task of conveying to the tomb the remains of 
