or lA PEROUSE, J^ 



enjoy the pleafure of not being obliged to divo 

 in fearch of their food, at the rifk of being 

 devoured by fliarks. The women, being con- 

 demned to this laborious talk, will feel, ftill 

 much more than the men, the value of fuch a 

 prefent : but it is to be feared that they will 

 kill thefe animals before they have multiplied g 

 for it appears that this has happened with re- 

 fped to the fow and the boar which Captain 

 Cook had left them; at leaft none of us could 

 perceive the fmalleft trace of thofe animals. 



The latitude of our obfervatory, which had 

 been eredted two kilometers to the fouthward of 

 pur anchoring place, was 43' 21' 18" fouth, and 

 its longitude 145 12' 17" eaH:. The variation 

 of the magnetic needle, obferved at the fame 

 place, was 7 jq' eaft. 



C>HAPrER 



