A Narrative of the Mission to Madagascar

Record summary

David Griffiths’s narrative recounts Welsh Protestant missionary work in Madagascar, including encounters with royal policy, traditional ritual, divination, persecution, conversion, and competing explanations of illness and spiritual danger. It offers a specific nineteenth-century source for studying how Malagasy religious practices were opposed or reclassified within evangelical accounts. The title, author, and London Missionary Society setting make it verifiable. Griffiths writes retrospectively and apologetically, so chronology, reported speech, translation, and theological interpretation require comparison with Malagasy chronicles and other missionaries.