Fifteen Years Forsaken
by J. A. Macfarlane from Damn Interesting on (#5H5WH)
Editor's Note: This article contains quotations from contemporaneous accounts which might be offensive for today's readers. The moon was new on the night of 31 July 1761, and the wide expanse of the Indian Ocean uniformly black. But Captain Jean de Lafargue of the French cargo ship L'Utile foresaw no danger. True, there were some [...]