Histoire des conquestes de Mouley Archy, connu sous le nom de Roy de Tasilet; et de Mouley Ismael, ou Semein son frere, & son Successeur A present Regnant. Tous deux Rois de Fez, de Maroc, de Tafilet, de Sus, &c. Contenant une description de ces Royaume...

Germain Mouette, also known as Sieur Mouette, faced misfortune during his journey to the French colonies in the Americas. While aboard the warship La Royale in October 1670, he encountered the corsairs of Salé and became a captive of Moroccan pirates. Following his capture, Sieur Mouette, like other foreign captives, was transported to Salé, often characterized as the "pirate capital of Morocco" Throughout his eleven-year sojourn in Morocco, Mouette meticulously documented and remembered his experiences. Initially sold into captivity in Salé, where he toiled alongside fellow slaves in the renovation of the city walls, he was eventually sent to Fes.
"It may nevertheless be objecte, that being a captive or slave, he had not leisure to see and inform himself as travelers do : But a man, that has anything of curiosity, though in the depth of misery, never fails to observe what is remarkable", Mouette wrote.