found: The travels of Robert Lyall, 1789-1831, 2020:page 4 of cover (Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar in Madagascar in 1827, representing the interests of the Tory establishment; Lyall discovered that the Malagasy crown had turned against the British alliance of 1820, his scientific pursuits alienated the local elite, and his efforts to re-establish British influence antagonized the queen, Ranavalona I, who accused Lyall of sorcery and forced him and his burgeoning family to leave for Mauritius where he died an untimely death, of malaria, in 1831)