To the Reader 
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have been in that Isle, I have always heard it named 
Anossi, whether by the native Inhabitants of the Country, 
or by the French. 
With regard to the villages of the Chiefs of Madagascar, 
as Dion Ponin , Ramons set, la Hayfouchy , &c., the names 
of these villages often last only during the life of the 
Seigneurs or Chiefs who possess them ; for after their 
death they either change their names, or rather they are 
ruin’d, when someone of these chiefs possesses himself of 
the country of his neighbours, & he then puts all to fire 
& blood, a proceeding which very often takes place. 
Tis on this account that one ought not to take much 
trouble to search on the Map & shou’d content one’s self 
with seeing the Plan of the country & the names of the 
Provinces, Rivers, &c., which do not change. 
INTERIOR OF GATEWAY, FORT DAUPHIN. 
