 His fiancée and two family servants come to the island in search of him, and after narrow escapes from cannibals and pirates they seize the pirates' ship and set sail for home.The opera was written for the prestigious Opéra-Comique in Paris, his second work for that theatre, following the unsuccessful "Barkouf" seven years earlier.The music is on a grander scale than that of most of the composer's earlier works.