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representative of H.B.M. late Consul, T. C. 
Pakenham, 1 Esq., and the messengers of his 
Excellency the Hova Governor of Tamatave, who 
sent to say he hoped we had had a pleasant 
voyage, and had arrived in good health. On 
landing from the boats on the shore, the friendly 
greeting of the Consul and the attentions of the 
natives soon made us feel quite at home; and 
we entered upon our sojourn in Madagascar with 
feelings of pleasure and hope. 
1 The painfully sudden death of Mr Pakenham on the 21st 
of June 1883, within a few hours of the bombardment of Tamatave 
by a French flotilla under the command of Admiral Pierre, and 
immediately after he had been gazetted to the Consul-General¬ 
ship at Odessa, after a lengthened period of devoted and faithful 
service to the British Crown in Madagascar, must be recorded 
here. It is a matter for melancholy satisfaction to know that Mr 
Pakenham was accorded a distinguished funeral, and that the 
obsequies were attended by the French and English naval 
officers, and representatives of all the chief Governments of 
Europe. In H.B.M.’s late Consul the native Government had a 
faithful counsellor, and the English colony a wise and impartial 
administrator. 
