(MENAFN- Caribbean News Now)
FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique – Until this year 2019, we did not know his name, hence the term "The Anonymous." This character has left a story of his trip to the Caribbean Sea, a manuscript found in the library of the diocese of Carpentras, in the south of France, hence the name "Carpentras."
This manuscript is valuable because it is the first complete story of an expedition of pirates and buccaneers in the Caribbean Sea, which, besides Martinique, has also visited Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Barbados.
This manuscript was found, transcribed, reviewed, annotated, commented by Jean-Pierre Moreau, archaeologist and published under the title: "Un Flibustier Français dans la Mer des Antilles" ("A French Buccaneer in the Caribbean Sea").
The expedition in which "The Anonymous" participated left the port of Dieppe in France, on June 20, 1618, with four ships, sailing along the coast of Africa (Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands), crossing the equator ("crossing the line") to make landfall in the northeast of Brazil (Pernambuco or Recife), then going back to the north: Lesser Antilles and Greater Antilles.
They stayed ten months on the French island, and it is one of the oldest known documents on Martinique. The interest in this manuscript is to make better known the first contacts between Caribbean (Kalinas) and French, with the description of the fauna, flora, landscapes and inhabitants.
For a long time it was thought that after the discovery of the French island by Christopher Columbus there was nothing happening in the archipelago before the French Belain d'Esnambuc landed on St Kitts, then Martinique, with this text we know how these navigators, in turn, buccaneers, traders, hunters, gatherers, planters were organized and began to learn little by little, in contact with the Indians.
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