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Excerpt from History of Madagascar, Vol. 1 of 2: Comprising Also the Progress of the Christian Mission Established in 1818, and an Authentic Account of the Persecution and Recent Martyrdom of the Native Christians
The history of Madagascar is, in many respects, highly instructive. It exhibits a branch of that sin gular and widely-scattered race inhabiting chie?y the coasts and islands of South-eastern Asia; preserv ing in their language, and many of their customs, unequivocal Signs of identity, yet dwelling at a dis tance from the Malayan archipelago, or the groups of Polynesia, greater than, without the strongest evi dence, we should have believed it possible for them to reach. It shows an interesting portion of the human family, gradually emerging from the ignorance and rudeness which characterise the earliest stages of society, exhibiting the intelligence and energy, and acquiring the comforts, of a civilized state. It further shows a people, with scarcely a single exception, friendly and hospitable to their visiters, until goaded to outrage and violence by ill-treatment, or rendered more corrupt than they were before, by the vicious in?uence and example of their visiters.
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The history of Madagascar is, in many respects, highly instructive. It exhibits a branch of that sin gular and widely-scattered race inhabiting chie?y the coasts and islands of South-eastern Asia; preserv ing in their language, and many of their customs, unequivocal Signs of identity, yet dwelling at a dis tance from the Malayan archipelago, or the groups of Polynesia, greater than, without the strongest evi dence, we should have believed it possible for them to reach. It shows an interesting portion of the human family, gradually emerging from the ignorance and rudeness which characterise the earliest stages of society, exhibiting the intelligence and energy, and acquiring the comforts, of a civilized state. It further shows a people, with scarcely a single exception, friendly and hospitable to their visiters, until goaded to outrage and violence by ill-treatment, or rendered more corrupt than they were before, by the vicious in?uence and example of their visiters.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - William Ellis
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ISBN - 9780260744852
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Page Count - 560
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