 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pagina’s
...by the wind on the ifle of Bourbon, were the next fet of people who inhabited it. This laft colony, for want of an opportunity to remove, were conftrained...cultivate this new country of theirs, and to remain in it. It was not long before a further flock of inhabitants arrived. A pirate that had been committing depredations... | |
 | 1823 - 888 pagina’s
...of people who inhabited it. This last colony, for want of an opportunity to remove, were constrained to cultivate this new country of theirs, and to remain in it. It was not long before a further stock of inhabitants arrived. Л pirate that had been committing depredations... | |
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... given to the French at Madagafcar by the natives, who furprifed and cut them off in one night, there efcaped as many men, as with their wives, who were natives, filled two canoes ; and thefe being driven by the wind on the ifle of Bourbon, were the... 