64 AVOYAGETO 



December. Ludov'tco XF GalliaTum 



regBy et d, * de Boynes 

 regi a Secretis ad res 

 maritimas annh i'j']2 et 



From this infcription, it is clear, that we were not the firft 

 Europeans who had been in this harbour. I fuppofed it to 

 be left by Monfieur de Boifguehenneu, who went on fhore 

 in a boat on the 13th of February 1772, the fame day that 

 Monfieur de Kerguelen difcovered this land ; as appears by 

 a Note in the French Chart of the Southern Hemifphere, 

 publifhed the following year f- 



As 



■•* The (d), no doubt is a contradlion of the word Domino. The French Secre- 

 tary of the Marine was then Monfieur de Boynes. 



t On perufing this paragraph of the Journal, it will be natural to aflc, How could 

 Monfieur de Boifguehenneu, in the beginning of 1772, leave an infcription, which, 

 upon the very face of it, commemorates a tranfadion of the following year ? Captain 

 Cook's manner of exprefling himfelf here, ftrongly marks, that he made this fiippofi- 

 lion, only for want of information to enable him to make any other. He had no 

 idea that the French had vifued this land a fecond time; and, reduced to the necelTity 

 of trying to accommodate what he faw himfelf, to what little he had heard of their 

 proceedings, he confounds a tranfadlion which we, who have been better inftrucSled, 

 inow, for a certainty, belongs to the fecond Voyage, with a funilar one, which his 

 Chart of the Southern Hemifphere has recordedj and which happened in a different 

 year, and at a different place. 



The bay, indeed, .in which Monfieur de Boifguehenneu landed, is upon the Weft 

 fide of this land, confiderably to the South of Cape Louis, and not far from another 

 more Southerly promontory, called Cape Bourboji ; a part of the coaft which our fliips 

 were not upon. Its fituation is marked upon our Chart ; and a particular view of the 

 bay (hi Lion Marin (for fo Boifguehenneu called it), with the foundings, is preferved 

 .by Kerguelen. 



But if the bottle and infcription found by Captain Cook's people, were not left here 

 •by Boilguehenneu, by whom and when were they left ? This v/e learn inoft fatif- 

 faclorily, from the accounts of Kerguelen's fecond Voyage, as publiflied by himfelf and 

 Monfieur de Pages, which prefent us with the following particulars : That they arrived 

 on the Weft fide of this land on the 14th of December 1773; that, fleering to the 

 * North 



