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Relation 
[1669 
I shall say hereafter something of the Island of Mada¬ 
gascar ; but before doing so I will insert here some light 
These Remarks on events happening in this island during the stay 
Colics are 
very com- that I made from the 2nd October 1669 until my return 
Madagas- to the Island of Mascarenne, or of Bourbon, where I was 
°are mortal for the recovery of my health, being depriv’d in the isle of 
^violent, a Madagascar of the use of all my limbs, without power to 
persons °are do anything of myself with any part of my body, being 
r paraiyd'd on ^ able to speak. This paralysis came to me from a 
by them. raging colic which tormented me three whole months. 
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OLD CASEMATED BATTERY AT FORT DAUPHIN. 
