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A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed a ... description of that island: the ... climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English ... With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East Indies / [Walter Hamond].

Walter Hamond

Date:: 1640

Credit: A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed a ... description of that island: the ... climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English ... With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East Indies / [Walter Hamond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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to have any conimetce or. trafick with itrangers , lft they fhould be infected with their vices and. evill cuflomes. O28 Belides., thofe happy people have noneed of any forraign commodity ,; Nature having fafficiently lupplied their. neceflitics wherewith they remain: contented... But it us we that are in want, and are compelled like famifht Wolves, to range the world avout for our living , to. the hazard both of our fouls and bodies; the:one bythe corruption of the Aur, the other by the corruption of Religion. Opa AR NS A’ for their ignorance in: the Millicary profe= k fion, though.they be not.trained up inthe pra- Gile of thofe:Arms our Moderns. have ‘lately: in- vented, they retain the ufe of thofe Weapons which have been.in ufe fron, al] Antiquity, 1 mean the Lance and Dart, wherein they have attained to in the World doth equall, Lam fare cannot exceed mour, and places of: {trength, and retirement. Tr is true, they have no other Armour than their own valour ; nor Forts, bue fortitude and courage; who, like the Parthians;, fight flying, making their ree treat as dangerous to the Enemy, as their firft en« counter. 3 ; And laftly, for the ufe of powder and fhot, and the managing of great Ordnance, whereef they are. altogether ignorant. Herein they are happy alfo above. all other Nationss::it being one of the moft damnable as sie oe REI GEES ET GEE Sap a RT ite aaa

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