Fragment concerning Labous

The

corsair was immediately invited to dine with

the Governor, seating himself between His

Excellency and the Portuguese Viceroy, then

and there arranging for the latter’s ransom,

and,

in spite of the pleasant tale told by

Bemardin de St. Pierre of his refusing to

take anything for the release of so agreeable

a gentleman, actually carrying off the ship in

default of getting the two thousand dollars

demanded, for which misconduct Capitaine

Olivier Levasseur was hanged at Bourbon on

the 17th July, 1730, having failed to get himself

included in the Act of Grace.

Introduction to “Robert Drury’s Journal,” etc., by 

Captain Oliver, R.A. (1890). pp. 24, 25. 

The amnesty granted in 1721 to the pirates 

who chose to become colonists of Bourbon 

did not prevent them from attacking ships, 

even in the roadstead of St. Denis. 


Fragments from The Story of Africa and It's Explorers, Robert Brown, Vol. 1