REMARKS on various things which happen'd in 
the Island of Madagascar , from the >]th 
October 1669, until the month of April 1671. 
he seventh October, Monsieur de Champmargou 
was appointed Lieutenant-General for the King to the 
Government of the Island Dauphine, & other Oriental 
countries under the rule of his Majesty, according to the 
Commission sent by the King. He took oath between 
the hands of Monsieur de Mondevergues, then Governor 
or Viceroy, & this at the head of the troops & French 
inhabitants then in the Island. 
The 15th of the month, one nam’d Raberry was executed Dicmissoto 
. . speak Chief \ 
a native of the island, accusd and convicted of having or Sei- 
induc’d one nam’d Dian Ponin Chief of the island to have g chi<fis a 
assassinated another Chief, who had just plac’d himself ^fthafhe 
under the protection of the French, & brought them 
presents; & for having pillag’d the presents & generally ™*f v fy ere 
all that the Chief and his people had. This assassination ^ffe Chiefs 
having been committed, the children of the assassinated in Mada - 
° 7 gas car. 
Chief had come to demand Justice from the French, who 
sent to this Dian Ponin to know the truth of it, & to 
cause him to make restitution. Dian Ponin justify’d 
himself to those who had been sent, & plac’d in their 
hands Raberry, guilty of having committed the above. He 
was brought to Fort Dauphin, & was condemn’d by the 
Sovereign Council of the Island as much for the above 
crime as for having assassinated some Frenchmen, & 
others mention’d in the indictment drawn up against 
him, whom he had spear’d to death. 
