Mauritius is home to a globe-spanning array of produce.
They'd been told about it by Arab sailors, who called it Dina Arobi, or Abandoned Island on a 1502 map. The Portuguese didn't stick around either. The Dutch gave it a go but gave up everything except the island's name -- which they named after their Prince Maurice van Nassau in 1598.
Successive French and British colonial governments turned the island into a plantation colony, bringing slaves from a wide swath of Africa and indentured servants from South Asia. Voluntary migrants followed, including a sizable Chinese community.
