360 HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
these islands, which may be a continuation of the little Archipelago of the Islands 
Bourde and Salomon. 
“ The latitude observed on descrying these islands, which the ship the Admiral 
Pocock fell in with in these seas in 1763, and the details found in its journals, 
induce us to presume that they are the Peros Banhos Isles, which had been already 
seen. 
“ The same opinion may be entertained respecting the island which was perceived 
by the ship Cornish, in 1762, and was probably the southernmost of these islands. 
“ The corvettes l’Heure du Berger and the Verd Galant, in 1769, and the ship 
Pelham, in 1745, fell in also with Diego Garcia ; but their tracks do not in any 
degree determine the position of that Island. 
(i In 1757, the bott* le Favori saw the Adu islands to the north-north-west, and 
soon after the Candu Isles, to the south-south-east. The Captain being desirous of 
examining the former, dispatched a canoe, with an officer and eight men for that 
purpose; but the winds and currents compelled him to abandon them, and to con¬ 
tinue his course to India. 
“ The officer and his party landed on the islands, and remained there three 
months, during which time they were occupied in contriving the means of extrica¬ 
ting themselves from their distressed situation. In the account which he gives of 
his abode on these islands, he observes that they are twelve in number, enclosed 
with reefs, and about six or seven leagues in circumference; and that in the middle 
of them there is a bank of a square form, whose circuit is about half a league. 
“ The ship the London, in the year 1741, fell in also with the Candu islands, in 
74 0 10' longitude east of Paris. It is in this longitude that they are placed on 
this Chart. They may be more to the east, but they certainly cannot be more to 
the west; for if that were so, the Favori would have fallen in either with the Six 
Islands, the shoal of Chagas, or Diego Garcia. 
“ The tracks of the ships the Stringers, in 1712, and the Terrible, afford but 
very uncertain conjectures.” 
A Dutch-built vessel so called. 
