. 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. ml m .1'"'' I'.'iS' 'ij M. 1 i! 17$ LA PETlorSE's VOYAdE people. He only got poirJ^flion of a young favagc, of thirteen or fourteen years old, whom he dc- figned to make ufe of as an interpreter, in the profecution of his difcovcrics. He left Port Praflin the twcnty-firft of Oclo- bcr, and continued to ftretch along the land to- w
. 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. ml m .1'"'' I'.'iS' 'ij M. 1 i! 17$ LA PETlorSE's VOYAdE people. He only got poirJ^flion of a young favagc, of thirteen or fourteen years old, whom he dc- figned to make ufe of as an interpreter, in the profecution of his difcovcrics. He left Port Praflin the twcnty-firft of Oclo- bcr, and continued to ftretch along the land to- wards the eaft-fouth-cafl, and afterwards towards the fouth-eafl. In many places he lofl fight of the coaft, and could perceive no land in thefc intervals; he thence concludes, with reafon, that the chafms, or openings, are bays, very deep gulfs, or channels, which, dividing the land into many iflands, form an archipelago. In his way many canoes came off from the fliore, anci went on board him. H^ made numerous pre- fents to the favages, but every where obferved marks of the greateft diflruft. Thefe people are great thieves, like all the inhabitants in the ifland? of the Great Equatorial Ocean. Surville obferved, that the young Indian, whom he had brought from Port Praflin, could not make himfelf underftood by the inhabitants of the coafl. and that he was in great fear of them, a circum- flance which induced Surville to believe that this land was of great extent, and that the people of the different iflands in this archipelago have no communication with each other but to make war. i ,.M When he had reached the ifland, which lie t - 1 called. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788; Milet de Mureau, Louis-Marie-Antoine Destouff, baron de, 17
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