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THE SEYCHELLES 
of surface. Among the smaller islands in the neighbour¬ 
hood, some of which are uninhabited, La Digue, Curi- 
euse, Felicite, Les Soeurs, and Silhouette are the most 
important. 
The Portuguese, in their voyages to India, were the 
first to obtain a knowledge of the Seychelles. It seems 
Coast view in the Island of Mahe with Masses of Granite. In the foreground is a Creole Settlement. 
(From a photograph by Dr. A. Brauer.) 
that under the name of Amirante Isles or Admiral Isles 
they understood these larger islands, which received their 
present name about the middle of the last century from 
an eminent French officer of the French Indian fleet, 
Morando de Seychelles, while we now apply the name 
Amirante to a group of low' unimportant islands lying 
