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2. Choose the correct word from the list provided below to complete the sentences
Port Mathurin extinct spice monument stop-over tortoises
(i) The Dutch sailors were travelling to East Indies for ………… trade.
(ii) Mauritius was a good ……………….. for food, fresh water and rest.
(iii) A …………………. is a structure built to remember an event or a person.
(iv) The Dodo and the Solitaire are birds that have become …………….
(v) In ……………., a street has been named after the Dutch sailor Wolphart Harmensen.
(vi) In Rodrigues, the sailors found giant …………….. in abundance.
1. Tick the correct box
(i) The rst European sailors to sail in the Indian Ocean came from ................................ .
England Portugal Holland
(ii) The Dutch rst landed at ................................ .
Port Louis Ferney Cap Malheureux
(iii) The Dutch found .................................animals in the island.
harmful harmless dangerous
(iv) The island of Rodrigues was named after ................................ .
Diogo Rodriguez Pedro Mascarenhas Ferdinand Periera
(v) The rst Dutch sailor to land in Rodrigues was ............................... .
François Leguat Wolphart Harmensen Van Warwick
3. Write True or False
(i) The Portuguese discovered Mauritius before the Arabs.
(ii) The Dutch are people from Holland.
(iii) Pedro Mascarenhas was a Dutch sailor.
(iv) The Dutch stopped at Mauritius to cure the sick.
(v) Rodrigues is the smallest of the Mascarene Islands.
(vi)The Solitaire was found in Mauritius.
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