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numbers by the fatigues, privations, and losses of the 
campaign, mortified and disgraced in the eyes of their 
countrymen, instead of bringing with them the rich booty 
they had expected. 
It appears that at the time they reached the coast, there 
were not fewer than twenty-one English ships in St. Augus¬ 
tine’s Bay, trading with the inhabitants of the country for 
supplies and other native produce. To these the people 
applied for aid and protection, which being readily afforded, 
the Hovas were obliged to return, leaving them the inde¬ 
pendent possessors of the country. The conduct of the 
masters of the British vessels on this occasion was highly 
displeasing to the queen, and had increased her desire that 
the remaining Missionaries should leave the country. 
Shortly after this event, Prince Corroller died. He had 
been for some years governor of Tamatave, and had been 
generally sought, to encourage commercial intercourse with 
the English, and preserve the friendship of the British 
government. His death, which took place on the tenth of 
November, 1835, left those in the administration who were 
unfriendly to the English at greater liberty to carry into 
effect their own measures for expelling all foreigners from 
the country, and excluding all foreign influence from the 
government. With this view it is supposed the road from 
Tamatave to the capital was stopped, and a new one opened 
in a more northerly direction, by which the journey was 
rendered more tedious and difficult than ever. 
Another expedition was sent against the inhabitants of the 
south, which perpetrated atrocities surpassing in treachery 
and blood all that had been known in the barbarous and 
sanguinary wars which had heretofore desolated Mada¬ 
gascar. The inhabitants of the invaded provinces had 
submitted to the army of the Hovas, and had agreed to 
