Radama; or, The enlightened African, with sketches of Madagascar, by the author of 'Affection's gift'.Harvey & Darton, 1824 - 172 pages |
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Page 40 - With mazy error, under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise ; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 40 - Imbrowned the noontide bowers : thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; — Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others, whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables * true, If true, here only...
Page 116 - British dominion in our neighbourhood ; and we are grateful to our good father who has produced for us these blessings. His nation and king have made laws to prevent you from being carried out of your island into slavery ; and he has punished such of the whites as have presumed to violate this law. He has called on us to assist him in this work for our own benefit ; and he has promised his powerful assistance to punish such as may be refractory or disobedient.
Page 1 - Where barren wilds usurped the scene. And such is man! a soil which breeds Or sweetest flowers, or vilest weeds: Flowers lovely as the morning's light— Weeds deadly as the aconite; Just as his heart is trained to bear The poisonous weed, or flowret fair.
Page 117 - Father ; and we humbly declare, that if any of our subjects, or persons depending on our power, shall henceforward be guilty of selling any slave or other person, for the purpose of being transported from the island of Madagascar, the person guilty shall be punished by being reduced to slavery himself, and his property shall be forfeited to me. " Let my subjects then, who have slaves, employ them in planting rice and other provisions, and in taking care of their flocks and herds — in collecting...
Page 118 - Mauritius in the execution of his duties. " I command all my subjects and dependants, and invite •all my allies, to abstain from any maritime predatory excursion whatever ; and more particularly, neither to practise, nor allow of aay attack or attempt upon the friends of our ally the British Nation. " It has been usual to make an annual attack upon the Sultan of Johanna, and the Comoro Islands.
Page 69 - Yet since the effects of Providence, we find, Are variously dispensed to human kind ; That vice triumphs, and virtue suffers here, A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear; Our reason prompts us to a future state : The last appeal from fortune and from fate : Where God's all-righteous ways will be declared ; The bad meet punishment, the good reward.
Page 116 - ... and prosperity — he has never deprived us of our rights or our properties — he has not suffered the white men to carry off...
Page 156 - ... dismal prison. Thumb-screws, to be used as instruments of torture, were also found in the vessel. From their confinement and sufferings, the slaves often injured themselves by beating, and vented their grief upon such as were next them, by biting and tearing their flesh. Some of them were bound with cords, and many had their arms grievously lacerated. Upwards of 150 of the slaves died on their passage to Sierra Leone.
Page 113 - Radama. It is understood by this Article, that the British Government shall place the said twenty individuals with persons practising the various trades before mentioned; but that Government is not responsible for their conduct or their want of capacity. Mr. James Hastie further engages to take with him eight other individuals, to be instructed in music, for the purpose of being formed into a band for the regiment of guards of His Majesty the King of Madagascar.