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Dauphin in the fifteen months that I stay’d there. The 
Natives of the Island collect these Grasshoppers, & make 
provision of them for eating. 
When I had left the Island for the second time that Inhabitants. 
I had passed there, & when I embark’d to take passage 
for France, there might have been still 250 Frenchmen, 
as well Officers, Soldiers, Workmen, & Settlers, of which 
there may have been 80, or thereabouts, who had their 
Habitations in the Province of Anosy, belonging to the 
French ; these Settlers are for the most part marry’d to 
the Native women of the Island. The over great heat of 
these women often advances the death of their hus¬ 
bands ; & ’tis very dangerous to Europeans to give way 
to voluptuousness with the women of this Island, because 
of their great heat. 
The girls & women of this country are very shameless. 
The girls do not hold it a dishonour to have had connec¬ 
tion with men before their marriage ; on the contrary, 
before they unite themselves together, they prove them to 
see if they will suit one another. 
I return to the French Settlers in Madagascar. They 
are comfortable in their Residences; they have plenty of 
cattle, such as Oxen, Cows, Goats, & Pigs ; they bring up 
quantities of Fowls, as well as Turkeys, Ducks, Hens, & 
Pigeons, like those of Europe. The breed of these 
Turkeys, Ducks, & Pigeons, has been brought to Mada¬ 
gascar by Monsieur de Mondevergues. They have formed 
many plantations, where they reap quantities of Rice, Peas, 
Beans, & Roots. 
They have gardens where there are all sorts of fruits of 
this country, of which I have made mention before. The 
herbs & vegetables grow there as well, & are as good as 
in France, as are the white and drumhead cabbages, Milan 
cabbage, green cabbage, cabbage & cos lettuce, white & 
sweet chicory, wild chicory, purslain, parsley, onion, & 
