JOURNAL 
AND 
RELATION 
OF THE VOYAGES 
MADE BY THE Sr. D. B. 
to the Islands Dauphine or Madagas¬ 
car & Bourbon or Mascarenne , &c. 
?:FTER having awaited for a long time orders 
from the King for the departure of the Ship, 
S. Paul , belonging to the Gentlemen of the 
Royall Company of the East Indies, which is 
of 300 tons burden, & commanded by the Sr. Cornuel; at 
length the anchor was weigh’d on Saturday, 13th April 
1669, & leaving Port Louis, we put to sea with a toler¬ 
ably fair wind, after having saluted the Fort of the place 
with 5 rounds of cannon. And doubling the Isle of 
Grotiay, at two leagues from Port Lotiis, we fir’d 3 guns 
to salute Our Lady , who is honour’d in this Isle, in a 
Chapel dedicated to her honour. The same evening we 
lost sight of France. 
On Thursday, 18th, about seven o’clock in the morning, 
being between the Capes of Finisterre & St. Vincent, 
the usual haunt of the Turkish Corsairs, we perceiv’d two 
Ships, which came, before the wind & under all sail, 
down upon us ; which oblig’d us to put ourselves in readi¬ 
ness to defend ourselves in case we shou’d be attack’d. 
These ships, sailing much faster than ours, arriv’d within 
Cape Finis¬ 
terre, named 
thus by Caesar, 
who having 
conquered the 
Spains & 
being arrived 
at this cape, 
terminated his 
conquests 
there, saying 
that it was the 
end of the 
world. 
