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h six-vingts de large. La principale porte regardoit 1 ’Occident & 
une petite plaine qui finissoit par un agreable Pa'isage, Pautre 
opposee regardoit POrient & la Mer. Dans ce Fort estoit une 
Chapelle elevee de planches, laquelle pouvait contenir quatre cens 
personnes ... la Maison du Gouverneur, que les Negres appellent 
Donac, qui veut dire Palais, comme les Maisons de leurs Grands, 
estoit aussi de planches. II y avoit un Magasin & une cuisine 
construits des plus gros morceaux de pierre qu’on avoit pu ramasser 
autour des roches ; un Corps de Garde, & douze Cases de pieux & 
de jongs, tous ces batiments estoient couverts de feiiilles.’— Histoire, 
Rennefort, partie i. chap, xxiii. p. 47. 
P. 4. La Hayfouchy, or la Hefonti.—It appears that in the middle 
of the seventeenth century there was a powerful chief named 
Andriandahifotsy, or Lahifotsy, who ruled over what is now Menabe 
on the west coast, north of St. Augustine’s Bay, where his kingdom 
is marked on Flacourt’s, on Eberard’s, and Sanson’s maps as la 
Hayfouchy. It was here that the Hooker St. Louis , which had left 
Havre in July 1665, in the following year anchored, on her way to 
purchase rice for Fort Dauphin. Her commander, the Sieur de la 
Vigne, accompanied by the Sieur Guibillon, a trader sent to buy the 
rice, having gone a short way inland, were met by a Sahalava chief 
who, pretending that he had been previously ill-treated by French¬ 
men, murdered the French captain and his comrades, as indicated 
by Eberard on his chart, (ante, p. 4), and confirmed by Rennefort in 
his well-known Memoires four servir, chap, xxiii. of part i. and 
part ii. chap. x. It afterwards appears that the Amboiiettes at the 
instigation of the same chief, who had (as Rennefort acknowledges) 
really been ill-treated by La Pile—in revenge for which insult he 
assassinated de la Vigne, revolted against the French.— Id. chap. xx. 
P. 4. The river des Mats and the old and new Macellage. —The 
River of Masts , pp. 35, 36. The Riviere des Mats may possibly be 
identified with the R re demaragande between Vieux Macellage and 
Nouveau Macellage, shown in the chart by Dupre Eberard, of 1667. 
New Macellage has been identified by M. Grandidier with a site on 
the west point of Boina Bay ; whilst Old Macellage is recognised by 
the same authority as having been situate on the coast of Mahajamba 
Bay, more to the North. If these places are correct, then the river 
des Mats would lie south of Mahajamba Bay ; and indeed Gran¬ 
didier identifies Eberard’s ‘ Maragande ’ (sic) with the Betsiboka. 
P. 4. Settlements of the Isle Bourbon. —These are shown in the 
map of Reunion by L. Maillard in vol. ii. Hakluyt edition of 
Francois Leguat. 
In de Flacourt’s map of 1661, reproduced in this work at p. 85, 
St. Paul only is marked of the settlements named by Dubois. St. 
Denis was afterwards formed on the river just east of Cape St. 
Bernard ; and Ste. Suzanne is where the Habitation de PAssomp- 
tion is marked by de Flacourt. 
