In 1796 Hodoul went to sea again as an "enseigne de vaisseau" aboard the privateer "Entreprise". Then he sailed aboard "Général Pichegru", a recently captured British schooner previously named "Hay", that Captain François Legars of "Enterprise" had given Jacques François Perroud. Hodoul sailed with Perroud to India. On 17 February 1797 Hodoul arrived at Port Louis with the British vessel "Castor", of 150 tons (bm), which Perroud and "Général Pichegru" had captured in January at Visakhapatnam. She had a cargo of wheat and rice.