Volume 2

An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse, undertaken by order of the Constituent assembly of France, and performed in the years 1791, 1792, and 1793, in the Recherche and Esperance, ships of war; under the command of Rear-admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux / Translated from the French ... In two vols., illustrated by engravings, and a chart exhibiting the track of the ships.

  • La Billardière, Jacques-Julien Houtou de, 1755-1834.
Date:
1800
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Credit: An account of a voyage in search of La Pérouse, undertaken by order of the Constituent assembly of France, and performed in the years 1791, 1792, and 1793, in the Recherche and Esperance, ships of war; under the command of Rear-admiral Bruni d'Entrecasteaux / Translated from the French ... In two vols., illustrated by engravings, and a chart exhibiting the track of the ships. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and fliortly after departed in our barge, with part of her fuite. '' We knew, from Bligh’s narrative, [page 174,) that at the moment when he was preparing to quit the ifland of Toofoa, the man whom he had fent on fhore to caft off his boat’s ffern-fafl, had been killed by an iflander. The natives of Tontrataboo informed us, that this murder had been committed by a chief named Mondoulalo ; but we could not learn the motives which had led him to this excefs of barbarity : every one of us was affoniflied at the indifference with which thefe people related fuch a tale. We had already feen, in the hands of the na- tives, fevcral knives of Englifh manufacture. Early on the morning of the 30th, Fee7iouhxoug\\Z* us a blunt bayonet, which he.had got from Captain Cook, and which he begged us ’ to fliarpen. In the afternoon we vifited fome iflots, fitii- ated at a fmall diftance frorri each other, be- tween Tongataboo and Pangaïmatoo; they are connected by a Hioal, which is almoft entirely / dry at low water. At firft we reached a fand-bank, newly rifeii from the bofom of the deep, and called by the iflanders InioUy on which, however, was already feen a commencement of vegetation. Wifhing, then, to get to the fmall illand of Manima,