. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. m X â â â [-â 'â â m If- M ROUND THE WORLD. 12^ leagues a day. At laft it fhifted fucceflively to the north, and north-eaft, which enabled me to make calling in my courfc, and on the 20th I got %ht of a round iQand, precifely fouth of Oyolava, but nearly forty leagues off. M. de Bougainville, who paflcd between thefe iflands, did no
. A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788 [microform]. Boussole (Frigate); Astrolabe (Frigate); Boussole (Frégate); Astrolabe (Frégate); Voyages around the world; Scientific expeditions; Voyages autour du monde; Expéditions scientifiques. m X â â â [-â 'â â m If- M ROUND THE WORLD. 12^ leagues a day. At laft it fhifted fucceflively to the north, and north-eaft, which enabled me to make calling in my courfc, and on the 20th I got %ht of a round iQand, precifely fouth of Oyolava, but nearly forty leagues off. M. de Bougainville, who paflcd between thefe iflands, did not perceive the former, becaufe he was a few leagues too far to the northward. Want of wind did not permit me to approach it that day; but on the following I ran within two leagues of the coaft, and faw two other iflands to the iouthward, which I plainly difcovered to be Cocoa and Traitors iflands of Schouten. Cocoa Ifland is very lofty, and in the fhape of a fugar-loaf: it is covered with trees to the fummit, is nearly a league in diameter, and is feparated from Traitors Iflancl by a channel about three miles wide. This channel is itfelf jnterfcdted by a fmall ifland, which we perceived at the north-weft point of the one laft mentioned. Traitors Ifland is lo^y and flat, with only a hill of fome height in the middle ; and is divided into two parts by a channel, of which the mouth is about 150 toifes wide. Schouten had no opportunity of feeing 1:, becaufe for that purpole it is necefl'ary to be in the oppofite point of the compafs j we ourfclves ftiould not have evei> fufpedled its exiftence, if we had not run clofe in with that quarter of the ifland. We had no longer any doubt that thefe three iflands, of which two alone defcjrve the native, were in the number of the ten, which,. If i â a ââ. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustratio
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