 From then on, the island's Port de Warwick was used by the Dutch as a stopover after long months at sea.In 1606, two expeditions came for the first time to what would later become Port-Louis in the northwest part of the island.The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1,357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille, came into the bay, which they named "Rade des Tortues" (literally meaning "Harbor of the Tortoises") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.