Africaine Collection

The Cutting Out of the Corvette La Chevrette, Bay of Camaret on the night of 21 July 1801 - below is a vignette the action between the Phoebe and French frigate L'Africaine. Date: 1801

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Act five - Selika, queen of Madagascar, watches her husband Vasco da Gama sail away with Ines, and sits under a manchineel tree, to breathe whose scent is fatal

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Act four - Vasco da Gama marries Selika, queen of Madagascar; but even as he swears the marriage oath he hears his beloved Ines lamenting her misfortunes

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Act three - the warriors of Selika, queen of Madagascar, board Don Pedros ship and massacre the Portuguese : Vasco survives, but only just

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Act two - Ines, in love with Vasco da Gama, delivers him from imprisonment by the Inquisition but only by consenting to marry Don Pedro

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Act one - Vasco da Gama before the Grand Council of the king of Portugal tells the story of his explorations and petitions for an expedition to sail round the Cape to the Indies

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