goarant

Updated: June 8, 2025

Mauritius was reached in due course, and there D'Urville met Commander Le Goarant, who had made a trip to Vanikoro in the corvette La Bayonnaise, and who told D'Urville that he had not attempted to enter the reef, but had only sent in some boats to reconnoitre.

Jules Verne - Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century