3o6 Voyage of the Novara. 



One of the boats sent by the frigate to take us off to 

 the ship, brought at the same time some presents, in memory of 

 the Expedition, for the residents of the island, who had been so 

 hospitable and obliging during our stay. The presents con- 

 sisted of ship biscuit, salted meat, and various other edibles, 

 wine, a musket, woollen blankets, clothes, shoes, tools, 

 medicines, vinegar, oil, &c. The simple, modest fellows were 

 immensely pleased with these unexpected presents, and Viot 

 especially seemed overjoyed on seeing a number of tools, for 

 want of which many of the repairs necessary in the interior 

 of their anything but air-tight wooden habitations, were 

 daily becoming more apparent. 



We left a book on the Island of St. Paul, in which the 

 principal memoranda of what we had achieved were set forth 

 in three languages (German, English, and French), with the 

 view of supplying to future scientific visitors, data for further 

 researches and observations, and at same time incite them to 

 prosecute these we had ourselves made. 



We insert here this document, which will yet give witness, 

 probably, of the scientific activity of the Austrian Expedition 

 at the Island of St. Paul in the Indian Ocean, at a period 

 when those engaged in it will long since have voyaged to 



" Tliat undiscovered, countrj' from ■\vliose bourno 

 No traveller returns." 



'• The Imperial Austrian Frigate, Novara^ 44, under the 

 command of Commodore the Chevalier von Wiillerstorf-Urbair, 

 engaged in a voyage round the globe for scientific purposes^ 



