ABSTRACT
Moric Benyovszky was a Hungarian adventurer, whose fanciful memoirs attracted much attention when they were published in London in 1790. Benyowsky made a couple of brief stops in Japan and the Ryukyu Islands before eventually arriving in Macao. From there he obtained passage on a ship of the French Compagnie des Indes orientales and was taken by company officials first to lle de France and then to France. Benyovszky entered the Austrian service, participating in the War of the Bavarian Succession and elaborating a plan for the development of the port of Fiume. After the failure of the scheme he sought sponsorship in London and Baltimore for a further venture in Madagascar, in which he contracted to supply slaves to America, and died there in a conflict with the French in 1786.
