Not long after the settlement of the Chagos group by the French planters at the end of the 18th century, the tendency was to concentrate the workers on only a few islands from which the plantations were run, like Ile Boddam in the Salomon Atoll.
Non moito tempo despoís colonos franceses asentaronse no grupo Chagos a finais do século 18, a tendencia era concentrar aos traballadores en só unhas poucas illas desde onde se dirixian as plantacións, como na Ile Boddam no Salomon Islands.