BRIEF CHRONOLOGY 
1506. Discovery of Ilha Santo Lorenzo (Madagascar). 
1507. Discovery of Ilha Santa Appollonya, attributed to Diego 
Fernandez Pereira. 
1528. Re-discovery of Las Ilhas de Mascarenhas. 
1529. Names and positions of Las Ilhas de Mascarenhas first appear 
on chart of Diego Ribero. 
1540. A Lazarist mission from Goa said to have been founded on 
Santo Lorenzo. 
1545. Portuguese take possession of Ilhas de Mascarenhas for King 
Joao in. 
1547. Alleged discovery of islands south-east of St. Laurent by Jean 
Alphonse, a Captain of Saintonge. 
1548. Reputed martyrdom of Lazarist missionaries by the Malagasy. 
1598. Attempted Dutch settlement in Santa Appollonya (?). 
1600. Another Lazarist mission from Goa visits Madagascar. 
1613. Captain Castleton, in the Pearl, lands on ‘England’s Forest’ 
(Mascareigne). 
1615. Andrian Ramaka, a Malagasy, accompanies Portuguese mis¬ 
sionaries to Goa. 
1619. Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe van Hoorn lands on the Insul 
Maskarinas. 
1627. Sir Thomas Herbert lands hogs and goats on ‘ England’s 
Forest,’ or Pulo-Par (Mascareigne). 
1638. Salomon Goubert finds the arms of France erected in lie 
Mascareigne. 
1642. The Societe de VOrient founded by Rigault. 
1643. Jacques de Pronis takes possession of lie Mascareigne for the 
Societe de l’Orient, and establishes settlement in south 
of Madagascar, named Fort Dauphin. 
1646. Twelve mutineers deported from Fort Dauphin to He Mas¬ 
careigne, then first inhabited. 
1649. Formal ‘prise de possession ’ of He Mascareigne, now named 
He Bourbon. The twelve Frenchmen brought back to Fort 
Dauphin, leaving the island uninhabited. 
1653. Pillar erected by the Sieur de Flacourt at Sta, Lucia on south¬ 
east coast of Madagascar. 
1654. Coillard, dit Taureau, with seven Frenchmen, settles on He 
Bourbon. 
1 In correction of Chronology given in Hakluyt Edition of Leguat. 
