THE NAVIGATORS’ ISLANDS. 
ON leaving Tahaiti, I proposed to pass a few 
days on the Radack Islands, which I had _ for- 
merly discovered; and, on my way thither, 
determined to visit the Navigators’ Islands. 
These are probably the same seen by Rog- 
gewin in 1721, which he called Baumann’s 
Islands ; but Bougainville has appropriated the 
discovery, as made by him in 1766, and given 
them the name they now bear, on account of the 
superior sailing vessels built there, and the re- 
markable skill the inhabitants display in their 
management. Neither Roggewin nor Bougain- 
ville have given their situation accurately, nor 
have these original errors been perfectly cor- 
rected by the unfortunate La Pérouse, or the 
