24S VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



which we had juft finilhed, fome favages had 

 attempted to carry off the hatchets of our wood- 

 cutters, and had attacked them with Hones, 

 but that two muflvet fliots had been fufficient 

 to difpcrfe them. 



1 employed all the day of the 6th, in de- 

 fcribing and preparing the numerous colledion 

 of fpecimcns of natural hiftory which I had 

 brought from the mountains. 



The next day, the yth, the death of Captain 

 Huon, which we learnt very early in the morn- 

 ing, occaficned deep regret to all the perfons 

 belonging to the expedition. 



Abviut one o'clock in the morning, thisflvil- 

 ful feaman had funk under a heilic fever which 

 had ])reyed upon him for feveral months. He 

 had fupported the approach of death with the 

 greatefl- coolnefs. He was buried, according 

 to the direc^lions in his will, in the centre of 

 the Ifland of Pudyoiia, during the middle of 

 the ni<.-ht. He had recommended that no mo- 

 nument fhould be raifcd to his memory, for 

 fear the inhabitants of New Caledonia might 

 difcover trie place of lus interment. 



Scon after fun rife we landed on the coaft to 

 the number of eip^lu, and penetrated into the 

 woods to ihe v.eil foiiih-wcn:. In a Ihort time 

 we rcaciicd a hut, whence came out a native 

 holding in his h:;nd a nrafK, v, hich he agreed to 



fell 



