mauritius, an island paradise in the middle of the indian ocean. it was here that one of the more bizarre chapters in the spice story was to be played out, when a well-named frenchman took on the dutch. >> when the french first came here to colonize the island in 1721, they thought it would be a good idea to make mauritius into a spice island and take away the monopoly that the dutch had at that time. and a peter poivre came here, peter pepper in english, came here, and he thought it would be a good money-making proposition to bring various spices, nutmeg, mace, and cloves, to the island, grow them here, and make a lot of money. >> peter pepper managed to grab a nutmeg seed from amboyna, in the moluccas, from right under the noses of the dutch, and he took it to mauritius. he lost his arm in his efforts, but he achieved his aim. >> when he became governor in 1766, he went to the large house in pamplemousses called mon plaisir, and he actually had 100 acres of garden devoted to spices. >> peter pepper's move symbolically spelt the end of the dutch e

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