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Notes 
Cf. account of M. de Lespinay :— 1 Les lieux oil l’on mouille 
ordinairement sont Set. Paul et Sainct Denys. II y a aussi Scte. 
Susanne mais la rade est moins bonne que les deux premieres.’— 
Op. cit. pp. 44, 45. 
P. 7. Port Lotiis.— At the entrance of the harbour of Lorient, 
where the seat of the East Indian trade was established in 1664. 
P. 7. The Isle of Grouay. —The lie de Groix, separated by the 
Basses des Bretons from the entrance to the Port of Lorient and 
Port Louis. 
P. 7. Haunt of Turkish Corsairs.— It was in these waters that the 
Sieur de Flacourt had encountered Moorish pirates, when his ship 
was blown up, causing his death on the 10th June 1660. 
P. 8. Isle of Fer, Tree of prodigious size in.— Vide Description of 
Africa by Leo Africanus, Hakluyt Soc. Edition, vol. i. p. 100. 
‘ Hierro hath neither spring nor well, but is miraculously furnished 
with water by a cloud which ouer-spreadeth a tree from whence 
distilleth so much moisture as sufficeth both for men and cattell. 
This cloud ariseth an hower or two before the sunne, and is dissolued 
two howers after sunne rising. The water falleth into a ponde made 
at the foote of the tree.’ 
P. 21. The Scurvy, or Land Sickness.— Cf. Leguat, Hakluyt Edition, 
p. 33. Also Voyage of Pyrard de Laval, Hakluyt Edition, vol. ii. 
pp. 390, 392, ‘ called scurbut by the Hollanders, and Mai das 
Gengivas by the Portuguese.’ 
P. 22. This Land being very high ’tis seen from afar.— The Piton 
des Neiges is 10,069 feet elevation. 
P. 22. Sharks or Tuberons.— Cf. Thomas Herbert, op. cit. lib. 3, 
p. 348, £ Sharks, some call them Tuberons.’ 
P. 22. Theriac.— The Theriac was a compound medicine long in 
repute. This celebrated electuary, ascribed to Andromachus, 
physician of Nero, has been used for centuries, and was even re¬ 
garded by the savant Bordeu as the supreme remedy. According 
to MM. de Cadeac and Meunier of Lyons, this theriacal mixture 
contained fifty-four substances known by the empirical methods then 
in vogue as being the most active and efficacious. 
P. 22. Orvietan.— This was another of these empirical elixirs, which 
obtained its name from the place where it was first compounded, 
at Orvieto, in Italy. Sir Walter Scott mentions it in The Talisman. 
P. 23. This island Maurice is inhabited by the Dutch.— Vide Leguat’s 
Voyage, p. lvi. At this time, according to Valentyn, George Frederik 
Wreede was the Governor of Mauritius. 
P. 23. Sieur Regnault.— Commandant of the Island. Etienne 
Regnault had commenced by being a simple clerk in the office of 
Colbert. He was in charge of Bourbon from August 1665 to June 
1671, and his administration was successful. He was afterwards 
secretary to Admiral de la Haye. Vide Les Origines de Hie 
Bourbon, par M. I. Guet. pp. 104, 105, et seq. Cf. Memoires de 
