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of a hog: a sack was lowered to him with the 
required payment, and when drawn up was 
found to contain a dog. The rascal had made 
off, but we sent a bullet after him, which seemed 
to produce no small dismay. 
On the following day, the 7th of April, hav- 
ing completed our observations, we took our 
course with a fresh trade-wind and full sails 
towards the north-west, in a direction where, 
according to the opinion of hydrographers, 
islands must lie. 
With respect to our geographical observa- 
tions on the Navigators’ Islands, I must make 
one remark—that all the longitudes found by us 
differ from those of La Pérouse by from 20 to 
23’, and the points observed lying so many 
miles more easterly than he considered them. 
His observations were grounded on the distance 
of the moon, which always gives a false longi- 
tude unless there is an opportunity of seeing 
the moon at equal distances, right and _ left, 
from the sun. Our longitudes were fixed by 
good chronometers, which having been regula- 
ted at Cape Venus, could not in so short a 
time have made any important error. 
