. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . CONTENTS lAGE Table of Contents v List of Illustrations and Maps vii Editors Preface . ix Bibliography xi Brief Chronology xv Introduction xvii ENGLISH EDITION Title xxxix Dedicatory Letter to Monsieur Loyseau i Authors Introduction 3 Journal 7 Remarks on various things which happened in Madagascar . 27 Island of Madagascar 49 Voyage of Monsieur de la Haye to Bourbon ... 72 Description of the Island of Bourbon or Mascarenne . 74 Description of some Birds of the I
. The voyages made by the sieur to the islands Dauphine or Madagascar & Bourbon or Mascarenne in the years, 1669, 70, 71 & 72 . CONTENTS lAGE Table of Contents v List of Illustrations and Maps vii Editors Preface . ix Bibliography xi Brief Chronology xv Introduction xvii ENGLISH EDITION Title xxxix Dedicatory Letter to Monsieur Loyseau i Authors Introduction 3 Journal 7 Remarks on various things which happened in Madagascar . 27 Island of Madagascar 49 Voyage of Monsieur de la Haye to Bourbon ... 72 Description of the Island of Bourbon or Mascarenne . 74 Description of some Birds of the Island of Bourbon . 76 Land Birds and their names 77 Fruits of the Island of Mascarenne 85 Garden Plants of the Isle of Mascaregne . . 87 vi Contents PAGE Of THINGS which can be done in the Island of Bourbon . 92 Relation of Fort Dauphin, &c 96 Relation of the Rest of the Voyage 99 Notes 109 Appendices 129 Index 154. RANGAHY b£. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS Frontispiece. Gigantic Tortoises—Living Survivals ofalmost extinct Chelonian genera, from Islands in the IndianOcean, now in the possession of the Hon. Walter Rothschild iii Head of Malagasy Chief, Rangahy Be, from photo, by Dr. Catat viBetsileo Woman, from photo, by Dr. Catat .... viiiMascarinns Duboisi, from the Planches Enluminees . . xvii The Dodaers of Bontekoe van Horn xxv Perruche a Coilier^ de Vhle de Bourbon .... xxviii Mordore, or Bruant de Vhle de Bourbon xxx Huppe du Cap de Bonne Esperance xxxii Medal of Colonia Madagascariensis, 1665 .... xxxv Malagasy Graveyard, East Madagascar,from photo, by Dr. Catat xxxviMap of Isle Dauphine by Sanson fils, 1667 . . xxxvii ENGLISH EDITION Frontispiece. The White Dodo, from Drawing by PierreWithoos. Colonial Medal of Louis xiv Chart of West Coast by Eberard, 1667 ....Interior of Gateway, Fort Dauphin, from photo, by Dr. CatatSouth-East Coast of Madagascar do. do. Old Casemated Battery a
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