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VISITS TO MADAGASCAR 
CHAP. VII. 
in England, which I endeavoured to answer to the best of 
my ability; and thus, notwithstanding the fatigue of the day, 
so gratifying and joyous was the circumstance of our meeting 
together, that it was long past midnight before we retired 
to rest. 
In subsequently recurring to the long evening thus plea¬ 
santly passed, I was naturally led to reflect on the deep and 
peculiar sympathy which we all seemed to feel. We were 
inhabitants of different hemispheres, and belonged to com¬ 
munities widely separated from each other by their relative 
civilisation and social position; yet we met and conferred 
together with a degree of confidence, satisfaction, and even 
enjoyment, as entire and sincere as if we had been long 
united in the closest human fellowship; and we felt, that we 
cherished aspirations as identical as if we were ultimately to 
be gathered into one common home. We know that sym¬ 
pathy so entire and uniform under all the diversities of ex¬ 
ternal condition, and so widely diffused, can spring from only 
one source, and is only perpetuated by one Divine influence; 
and it is a source of unspeakable pleasure to feel that it 
not only brings with it a present enjoyment, but will ulti¬ 
mately unite the estranged and separated members of the 
human family in one hallowed bond of brotherhood and 
peace. 
This was one of the ports by which Eadama, after the abo¬ 
lition of the slave trade, endeavoured to connect the foreign 
commerce of the country with his capital, and for this pur¬ 
pose he sent in 1823 two thousand persons to Foule Pointe 
to form an agricultural and commercial settlement, under 
Eafaralahy, an enlightened and energetic prince, who spent 
some time at Mauritius, and whose administration was eulo¬ 
gised by Sir E. Farquhar when he visited the port. 
Foule Pointe has also been the scene of some remarkable 
events in the earlier history of the people. It was one of the 
