. 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. ROUND THE WORLD. ^3S not have fufficed to remove our doubts, becaufe Ic is well known, that there is a great refemblance be- tween all thefe people, though fituate very far from one another; whereas the identity of name, and a very (light defcription of the figure and ex- tent of the ifland, formed a certain proof of the identity of
. 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. ROUND THE WORLD. ^3S not have fufficed to remove our doubts, becaufe Ic is well known, that there is a great refemblance be- tween all thefe people, though fituate very far from one another; whereas the identity of name, and a very (light defcription of the figure and ex- tent of the ifland, formed a certain proof of the identity of place. The following night was dreadful: the darknefs in which we were involved was fo impenetrable, that it was impoflible to fee any thing around us. As in this flate of the atmofphere it would have been very imprudent to ftand on in the midft of fo many iflands, I determined to make fhort tacks till day-break; but when the day came, it was Hill more tempeftuous than the night. The barometer had fallen three lines, and if it were poflible for a hur- ricane to blow harder, it certainly could not be an- nounced by weather of a more unpleafant appear- ance. I fleered a courfe, however, for the ifland of Lattc, and flood within two miles of it, though very certain that no canoe would dare to put to fea. I was fo overpreffed under that ifland by a fquall, that I was obliged to bear away towards the iflands of Kao, and Toofoa, from which we muft have been but at fmall diftance, although the mift did not permit us to diftinguifli them. Thefe two iflands were laid down for the firft time upon captain Cook's charts. He paflTed through the channel two miles in width, that fcparates them K 4 from »!. â¢| (â H. 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, comt
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