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Mauritius incident: On 26 April 1834 Indian Oak, Worthington, master, arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius, from Calcutta. There he objected to an arbitrary decision by Mr. Cunningham, the collector of customs, who proceeded to have all manner of private goods on Indian Oak , but not belonging to Captain Worthington, seized.
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.It is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. Tectona grandis has small, fragrant white flowers arranged in dense clusters at the end of the branches.
Illustration from 1670, which may show two Mascarene teals towards the top middle of the small stream to the right of the shelter. The reports of Bernardin and (1710) Boucher are puzzling insofar as that they mention both geese, sarcelles (teals, or ducks, which is this species) as well as canards (ducks, larger than sarcelles) as occurring or having occurred on Réunion.
Assistance was built out of teak in 1835, at Howrah, Calcutta, and was launched as the merchant vessel Acorn.She was renamed Baboo at some point prior to 1837. [1]On 23 August 1837, Baboo carried 106 male and six female contract labourers from Calcutta to Mauritius.
She was built of teak and her actual carrying capacity (as distinct from her registered burthen), may have been on the order of 1300 tons. [6] Captain Walter James, [10] or more correctly Walter Dawes, [1] [11] sailed Lucy Maria from Calcutta on 7 February 1801, bound for England. She was at Saugor on 21 March and Simon's Bay on 31 July.
Bengal Merchant was a sailing ship built of teak in Bengal and launched there on 26 May 1812. Between 1812 and 1829, Bengal Merchant was in private trade as a licensed ship. [6] She served the East India Company (EIC) in 1813 and from 1830 till 1834. She also twice transported convicts from Britain to Australia before she was hulked in 1856.
Florida companies Teakdecking Systems and Florida Teak imported more than half a million pounds of Burmese teak from Myanmar despite U.S. economic sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise ...
Tamarin Falls or Sept Cascades (293 m) on Mauritius is the highest waterfall on Mauritius, while Cascade Trou de Fer (725 m, ranks 23rd worldwide) on Réunion is the highest of the Mascarenes. [ 23 ] The Grand River South East (34 km) is the longest river on Mauritius, followed by Rivière du Poste (23 km), Grand River North West (22 km ...