J 84 VOYAGE .I;N SpARCH 



CHAPTER XIII, 



Departure from Tongatahoc. JVe make the 

 south part of the Archipelago Del Espiritu 

 Santo, or New Hebrides'. Discovery of VIsIq 

 de Beaupre, orBeaupres Island. TVe anchor 

 at New Caledonia. Interviews with the na-- 

 tives. Description of their huts. T/iese sa- 

 vages aj^e cannibals. Thtir impudence towards 

 us. They eat large pieces of steatites in order 

 to appease their hunger. Their attempts ta 

 get possessio?! of our boats. Various e.vcur- 

 sions into thp interior of the island. Death 

 of Captain Iluon. Nexv species of spider eaten 

 by the savages of New Caledonia, 



vJN the loth of April \vc got under fail about 

 feven o'clock in the morning, and being car- 

 ried along by a pretty frefli breeze from the eaft 

 fouth-eall:, wc for an hour fleered from north- 

 \veft by north to north, and then north -eaft by 

 north, failing cut by a channel which, had been 

 difcovered to tiie nnrthv\ard of our anchor- 

 ing-place by Citizen Lcgrand. 



In this paTige we had regular foundings from 

 five and a half to nine fathoms. 



Some 



