28 
Relation 
[ 1669 
They brought Raberry out from the prison where he 
was, & read to him the Sentence, then he was conducted 
to the Church (having been baptiz’d in his infancy) where 
they made him confess ; on leaving the Church they con¬ 
ducted him to the place of his execution, where during & 
after having chanted the Salve Regina , he turn’d his head 
towards his adversaries who were behind him to execute 
him, and said to them with an assur’d tone, ‘ Your 
Sagayes are they well pointed & sharpen df ’ they reply’d to 
him that they were about to prove it To which he reply’d 
that they were great cowards to prove them on a man who 
had neither arms nor legs free, & that did he have them 
free he would fight twenty like them having equal arms. 
He said, moreover, I have nephews who will avenge my 
death, now Strike! He said these things with a tone as 
assur’d as if he were free; &, he having thus finish’d, one 
of them to whom he had just spoken gave him a stab with 
a Sagaye from behind, which passing under his right 
shoulder issu’d by the right pap, the others then gave him 
The several other stabs with their Sagayes & cut his throat. 
this Island This Raberry was well made in person, tho’ black, and 
fear of was reputed one of the bravest of his Nation, but he was 
1 "* very treacherous; he could not have been more than 
Vutpre- twenty-five years old. 
sent. The 22nd December following, a small Vessel arriv’d 
at Fort Dauphin about thirty Tons, nam’d the Saumague , 
which came from the Indies. It was laden with Persian 
Wine, Salt, Silk Stuffs, & Cloths, the whole for Fort 
Dauphin. This small Vessel had been in the four quarters 
of the world. It had been built in Portugal, which is in 
Europe, brought to Brazil, which is in America, where 
Monsieur de Mondevergues pass’d in going to Madagascar, 
& there he purchas’d this small Vessel. ’Twas brought 
from Brazil to the Cape of Good Hope, which is in Africa; 
from the Cape of Good Hope to Madagascar, which is also 
