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Nosy Be's charms were recognised as long ago as 1649 when the English Colonel Robert Hunt wrote:"I do believe, by God's blessing, that not any part of the world is more advantageous for a plantation, being every way as well for pleasure as well as profit, in my estimation".


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Hunt was attempting to set up an English colony on the island, known as Assada, but failed because of hostile natives and disease.


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Future immigrants, both accidental and intentional, contributed to Nosy Be's racial variety.
Shipwrecked Indians built a magnificent settlement several centuries ago in the southeast of the island, where the ruins can still be seen.


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The crew of a Russian ship that arrived during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05 are buried in the Hell-Ville cemetery.
Other arrivals were Arabs, Comorans and - more recently - Europeans flocking to Madagascar's foremost holiday resort.


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