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ever evinced more good faith and honourable feeling in their 
transactions with strangers than the late king of Madagascar, who 
even put some of his own relatives to death because they had in¬ 
fringed his law forbidding the exportation of slaves. 
The following description of the person, and sketch of the 
character of Radama, was written by one of the native chiefs, 
Prince Corroller, and is considered as in general correct: 
“ In person, Radama was about five feet, French, in height, 
slender and small in his limbs and body, his figure in general 
being well-proportioned. His colour was olive, his head round, 
his face oval, the features not strongly marked, and the expression 
generally agreeable or smiling. Radama’s hair was of jet black, 
strong and curling, his forehead not very prominent, nor remark¬ 
able except for a whitish scar across it caused by a fall from his 
horse; his eyes were small and sparkling, with remarkably fine 
eye-brows and eye-lashes; his nose, though flatter than that of 
Europeans, was much less so than is common in his country. His 
forehead and mouth were not remarkable, except that his under¬ 
lip was large, thick, and drooping. He was in the habit of laugh¬ 
ing very loudly when excited by mirth, and his cheeks were 
then deeply indented, giving him an appearance of great merri¬ 
ment. His ears were small. He was broad and square across the 
shoulders, but very small in the waist. He had a pretty hand, 
small feet, and fair skin. 
“Radama was extremely affable, his conversation sweet and 
agreeable,— indeed, so attractive as to deceive a stranger on his 
first interview. His mind was subtle and cunning. He was 
a man of extensive natural genius, and very inquisitive. He 
was exceedingly proud, vain-glorious, ostentatious on public oc¬ 
casions, arbitrary, and so accessible to flattery, that his people at 
length saluted him as God, which he allowed without displeasure. 
He was of a lively but angry temper, and easily offended, a 
famous hunter, a good marksman, and a noble horseman, especially 
on any grand occasion. Brave, intrepid, and impetuous — these 
very qualities made him sometimes commit acts of cruelty and in¬ 
justice, because he could not bear the least opposition to his will 
and opinion by any person whatever, either in word or deed. He 
