This view of Port Louis in Mauritius displays the harbour and is from Laplace’s second voyage of circumnavigation which consolidated French interests in the Pacific entitled ‘Voyage Autour du Monde … La Favorite’. Dunmore states ‘the importance of the expeditions of the Venus, the Artemise and the Heroine in laying the foundations for the subsequent sharing-out of Oceania should never be overlooked …’ Dunmore ‘French Exploration of the Pacific’ pp. 317-40; Judd & Lind ‘Voyages to Hawaii before 1860’ 105; Sabin 38983.