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his plans, though novel, were substantial; and that 
so far from being entitled to the character of the 
“ wicked white man # ,” he may be considered as the 
first European friend the Madegasses ever beheld in 
the quality of a governor of a colony. + 
* Rochon’s Madagascar, p. 294. 
+ If the reader has an opportunity of perusing Wadstrom’s 
excellent Treatise on Colonization, he will there find the count’s 
character drawn with a masterly hand, as well as that of his 
French persecutors. 
