M. Dumont D’Urville. Submission of Malagasy people to Flacourt in 1652. Madagascar. 1834.

Print of steel engraving titled „Soumission des Malgaches a Flacourt en 1652“.

Author Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville.

Engraved by unknown.

From „Voyage pittoresque Autour du Monde, resume general des voyages decouvertes, public sous la direction de M. Dumont D’Urville, a Paris, chez L. Tenre, Libraire-Editeur, 1834.

Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral, who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as D'Urville Island.

The Malagasy are the ethnic group that forms nearly the entire population of Madagascar. They are divided into two subgroups: the "Highlander" Merina, Sihanaka and Betsileo of the central plateau around Antananarivo, Alaotra (Ambatondrazaka) and Fianarantsoa, and the "coastal dwellers" elsewhere in the country. This division has its roots in historical patterns of settlement. The original Austronesian settlers from Borneo arrived between the third and tenth centuries and established a network of principalities in the Central Highlands region conducive to growing the rice they had carried with them on their outrigger canoes. Sometime later, a large number of settlers arrived from East Africa and established kingdoms along the relatively unpopulated coastlines.

Approx. image size 12, 1 x 9, 1/17, 5 x 13, 9 cm. Condition: good.