Surat 
pillaged. 
42 Relation [1671 
Tis what resolv’d Monsieur the Admiral to go to the Isle 
of Bourbon, both to re-establish his health as well as that 
of the convalescent & sick. 
The-of the said month of January, the Vessel, 
Phenix , belonging to Messieurs of the Royal Company of 
the East Indies, arriv’d at Fort Dauphin. This Vessel 
would have been lost at sea if she had not found the Flute 
named the Indienne , commanded by the Sieur Laclide, of 
whom I Ve spoken ; who, having boarded this vessel & 
seen the necessity of the Crew which mann’d it, because 
the greatest part of the Crew was dead, the remainder 
sick, he left there thirty men of his Vessel, with orders 
that the said Ship Phenix should come to anchor at Fort 
Dauphin, which was promis’d by Monsieur the Bishop of 
Heliopolis, who was in this Vessel with many other Mis¬ 
sionaries, who were going to the Kingdom of Siam, & into 
China & Cochin China, in their Missions. 
Following there arriv’d the Hooker, the Saint Luc , of 
which I’ve spoken, not having been able to make her 
voyage from the Indies. She confirm’d the news which 
I’ve written above, brought by Gigault, Pilot. 
The-February, the Hooker, Saint Jacques , arriv’d 
from the Indies at the Fort, laden with victuals for the 
return to France of the Vessel Mariee , by which vessel 
Monsieur de Champmargou & myself receiv’d letters which 
the Missionaries, who had pass’d in the Saint Paul to the 
Indies, had written to us, of which I have written before: 
they advis’d us that they had had trouble in finding a few 
of the goods which they sent us, because the Town of 
Surat had recently been pillag’d by one named Savagy, of 
whom I shall recount what these Missionaries inform’d us 
concerning him. 
Savagy is a Sovereign Prince, who has his principality 
in the States of the Great Mogul, & who replac’d him in 
it. He is not further than ten days from Surat, a Town 
