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the two we now saw, by calling them Prince Ed- 

 ward's Islands, after his Majesty's fourth son ; and 

 the other four, by the name of Marion's and Crozet's 

 Islands, to commemorate their discoveries. 



We had now, for the most part, strong gales be- 

 tween the north and west, and but very indifferent 

 weather; not better, indeed, than we generally have 

 in England in the very depth of winter, though it 

 was now the middle of summer in this hemisphere. 

 Not discouraged, however, by this, after leaving 

 Prince Edward's Islands, I shaped our course to pass 

 to the southward of the others, that I might get into 

 the latitude of the land discovered by Monsieur de 

 Kerguelen. 



I had applied to the Chevalier de Borda, whom, 

 as I have mentioned, I found at Teneriffe, request- 

 ing, that if he knew any thing of the island dis- 

 covered by Monsieur de Kerguelen, between the 

 Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, he would be 

 so obliging as to communicate it to me. Accord- 

 ingly, just before we sailed from Santa Cruz Bay, he 

 sent me the following account of it, viz. " That the 

 pilot of the Boussole, who was in the voyage with 

 Monsieur de Kerguelen, had given him the latitude 

 and longitude of a little island, which Monsieur de 

 Kerguelen called the Isle of Rendezvous, and which 

 lies not far from the great island which he saw. 

 Latitude of the little isle, by seven observations, 48 

 26' south ; longitude, by seven observations of the 

 distance of the sun and moon, 64 57' east from 

 Paris." I was very sorry I had not sooner 

 known that there was on board the frigate a t Tene- 

 riffe an officer who had been with Monsieur de Ker- 

 guelen, especially the pilot ; because from him I 



then communicated by Monsieur Crozet; that it was published 

 under the patronage of the Duke de Croye, by Robert de Vaugondy. 

 Captain Cook tells us lower in this chapter that it was published m 

 1773. 



