CAPTAIN DUPERRE. 995 
ing at any one who speaks their language ill,— 
I say this from experience. 
Some months before us, the French Captain 
Duperré had visited Tahaiti upon a voyage of 
discovery, in the corvette Coquille. He return- 
ed home in safety, and is about to publish his 
travels, of which he has already had the good- 
ness to send me some portions. An important 
acquisition to science may be expected from 
this work. 
