Le cadre est superbe, un village de pêcheurs au milieu des arbres de noix de coco en face de la plage. Comme Surin, cependant, sa baie est maudit par un ressac mauvais.
On April 10, 1689, the French general Desfarges led an expedition to re-capture the island of Phuket in an attempt to restore some sort of French control in Siam. The occupation of the island led nowhere, and Desfarges returned to Pondicherry in January 1690.