Excerpt from The Missionary Magazine and Chronicle, Vol. 28: Chiefly Relating to the Missions of the London Missionary Society; From January to December, 1864 Tu Members of the Society must have shared with the Directors in their anxious and painful solicitude in reference to the state of the Government in Mgascar, and more particularly as to the truth or ofierwise of the reports that Bum II. Was still alive. To these reports we referred in our last number, but the intelligence received from the Rev. William Ems, on which they were founded, reached no later than September 19th, and arrived in this country on the 5th of N ovember. By the last mail, which reached England on the 7th ult., no intelligence was received; but in the Mauritius Commercial Gazette, which that mail conveyed, and which contained intelli gence from Madagascar to the end of October, there was not the slightest reference even to the rumour of the King' s being alive - ou the contrary, the latest information from the capital would all lead to the conclusion that such a report was entirely disbelieved. 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.