FATE OF LA PEYROUSE. 4n, 
stranded vessels were those of La Peyrouse is beyond all doubt; 
for years before and after no other large vessels had been lost 
in those seas. The heavy cannons could only have belonged to 
ships of war such as La Peyrouse commanded, and several of 
the instruments collected by Captain Dillon evidently belonged 
to a scientific expedition. 
Before D’Urville left Yanikoro he resolved to raise a simple 
monument tothe memory of his unfortunate countrymen, a four- 
sided pyramid resting on a square base. Neither nails nor iron 
clasps fastened the coral blocks together, for fear of awakening 
the cupidity of the savages; and, if they have kept their word 
to honour the Papalangi monument as they would a temple 
erected to their own gods, it still reminds the navigator whom 
chance may lead to that secluded island, of the renown and 
tragical end of the ill-fated La Peyrouse. 
