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VISITS TO MADAGASCAR. 
CHAP. III. 
minister, with his wife and family, were soon removed to the 
hospitable home of Mr. and Mrs. Kelsey. Some of their 
companions were invited to the habitations of other residents 
in Port Lonis, and the rest remained at the quarantine. 
At a public meeting which the passengers held a few days 
afterwards, to express their sense of the generous conduct of 
the officers and crew of the American ship, and to provide 
some suitable memorial to be presented to Captain Ludlow, 
I was surprised to meet a gentleman whom I had known in 
England, and whom I had last met at a bridal party under 
very different circumstances from those which now brought 
us together. On a subsequent visit from this gentleman, I 
learned that one of the passengers, a young man with whose 
relations I was acquainted in England, had been so crippled 
by the wreck as to be unable to move, and had lain one whole 
night upon the rocks, where the surf washed over him. His 
companions were too weak to carry him ; the sailors of his own 
ship had left him to die; but Captain Ludlow had sent four 
strong seamen to bring him over to the landing-place, de¬ 
claring he would not leave the coast while a soul remained 
on the island. This young man, I was informed, was in the 
hospital. I lost no time in visiting him there, and he was 
greatly delighted to meet with some one who knew his family 
and friends. 
The noble conduct of Captain Ludlow secured for him the 
esteem and gratitude of the entire community. The governor 
acknowledged his gallant and disinterested efforts on behalf of 
British subjects, and the Chamber of Commerce publicly did the 
same in the most handsome and appropriate manner, accom¬ 
panying the expression of their admiration of his generous 
and humane behaviour, and that of his officers and crew, 
with the present of a piece of plate, of the value of 120Z., 
to be procured in London, as a memorial of their deep sense 
of his heroic conduct and distinguished worth. 
