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Thread #15809 Message #491170
Posted By: GUEST,Oz Childs
25-Jun-01 - 02:54 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Isle of France / Ile de France
Subject: RE: The Mower/Ile (Isle) de France
A little late to join the thread, but readers of the Patrick O'Brian stories will know that the Isle of France is the old name for Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. A ship bound from Sydney to the Cape of Good Hope and England could plausibly be blown ashore there, especially if it stopped at Colombo (in Sri Lanka) first.