HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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our property thither in the course of eight successive journies, through woods in 
which there was no regular path, and where we frequently lost our way. 
“ When we arrived at the Lodge, we found the surgeon of our vessel, whose name 
wa-s Clas, and Jaques Guiguer , one of our small company of pilgrims, who has 
been already mentioned, and whom Valleau , our captain, had taken from us at 
Rodriguez. He had his reasons, which I shall not stop to develop, for taking the 
latter from us, as well as for leaving both of them afterwards at the Island of Mau¬ 
ritius. They related to us the following history: 
“ The Captain Valleau had no sooner weighed anchor off Rodriguez, than he 
opened all our letters, and having read them aloud to the ship’s company, threw 
them into the sea. Two days after his arrival at Mauritius, an,English captain, 
with his crew, arrived there in a small sloop, having escaped from his ship, which 
had struck upon a sand-bank near Rodriguez. This man proposed to Valleau to 
accompany him to the wreck, with the hopes of enriching themselves with some of 
the valuable merchandize which it contained : the latter agreed to the proposition, 
and a secret engagement was ratified between them. Valleau, who was accountable 
to the Commandant of Mauritius, who was then M. Lamocius, for his actions, in 
order to cover his design, represented to him that the eight adventurers at Rodri¬ 
guez might be feduced to the greatest distress, and that it would be an act of cha¬ 
rity to send them certain necessaries and accommodations, of which he presented 
an ample description. The Commandant, to whose attention the Governor of 
the Cape of Good Hope had warmly recommended us, fell readily into the snare; 
and by his orders Valleau’s vessel was laden with deer, calves, goats, hogs, fowls, 
and fruit; in short, with abundance of every thing produced at Mauritius; and 
which, if they had arrived, would have made an Eden of our island. The waves, 
however, were our avengers; and he was for several days severely buffeted by them, 
without being able to get to the wreck; and the stock of provisions, of which he may 
be said to have robbed us, was all he got by his villainy.—I shall now return to 
our own history. 
“ Jean de la Haye, the goldsmith, having a considerable quantity of professional 
tools, which were very heavy, and consequently incommodious to take about with 
him, was induced to dispose of a part of them to a person of the same profession 
whom we met at the North-west Harbour. Among his tools was a piece of amber¬ 
gris, of about six pounds in weight, which had been found at Rodriguez, and has 
