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the observations which she made in her passage, and during 
her stay in the harbour of Offak, which she left on the 16th of 
September. On the 23d, M. Duperrey cast anchor at Cajeli, 
(Boron island); the 4th of October he landed at Amboina, 
where he received from M. Merkus, governor of the Moluc- 
cas, the most cordial reception, and all the assistance which he 
needed. On the 27th of October the Coquille again set sail, 
steering her course from north to south; she observed the isle 
of the Volcano; crossed the strait of Ombay; coasted the isles 
situated to the west of Timor; observed Savu, Benjoar, and 
finally left this latitude to make Port Jackson. Contrary 
winds did not allow M. Duperrey to range the western coast 
of New Holland, as he meant to have done: it was only on the 
10th of January 1824 that he doubled the southern point of 
Van Diemen’s land; the 17th, the corvette was moored in 
Sydney Cove. Sir T. Brisbane, governor of New Holland 
and corresponding member of the Academy, received our tra- 
vellers with the most amiable eagerness, ‘and put into their 
hands all that could contribute to the success of the opera- 
tions with which they were entrusted. 
In leaving Sydney the 20th of March 1824, after resting for 
two months, the expedition sailed for New Zealand, where it 
arrived the 3d of April, in the Bay of Isles. The works which 
were to be done there were terminated the 17th. During the 
first days of May, the Coquille had already surveyed in every 
direction the archipelago of the Carolines. The monsoon from 
the west obliged her to abandon these roads towards the end of 
June 1824; she then went to the northern extremity of New 
Guinea, ascertaining during the voyage the geography of 
a considerable number of islands little known or badly placed, 
and reached the haven of Dory the 26th of July; a fortnight 
afterwards she again sailed, to arrive, by crossing the Moluccas, 
at Java. She cast anchor in the port of Sourabaya the 29th of 
August; went from it the 11th of September; and arrived the 
following month at the Isle of France, where her operations 
detained her from the 31st of October to the 16th of Novem- 
ber ; she remained at Bourbon from the 17th-to the 23d of the 
same month, and then made sail for Saint Helena. The stay 
of M. Duperrey in this island lasted a week. He went from it 
on the 11th of January 1825, cast anchor at Ascension the 
18th, rapidly executed there the observations of the pendulum 
and of the magnetic pheenomena, and finally quitted these En- 
glish establishments on the 27th, after having received from the 
commanders and from the officers of the two garrisons every 
assistance that could be desired. At last, on the 24th of April, 
M. Duperrey entered the road of Marseilles. 
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