OF LA PERO.USE. ^83 



\yefl to eaft 6^ north, at the diftance of a my-r 

 riameter, when we were in latitude S" 49' fouth, 

 and longitude 155" 9' eaft. We then quitted 

 this Archipelago, and made fail towards th^ 

 northern coalt of X<2 Louiftade. 



The furvey which we had juft made of the 

 lands of the ArJacideSy left us no doubt of their 

 being Solomon's Archipelago, difcovered by 

 Mendana, as Citizen Fleurieu had fo juftly 

 prefumed in his excellent work on the dif- 

 coveries of the French. 



pn the 9th, the Captain of the Efperance 

 informed us of the death of Mahot, the unfortu- 

 nate man belonging to her crew, who feventeen 

 days before had been wounded in the forehead 

 with an arrow by a favage of Egmont Ifland. 

 The wound, however, had healed well, and 

 fourteen days had elapfed before he experienced 

 the fmallefl bad fymptom ; but all at once he 

 was attacked with a very violent tetanus ^ of 

 which he died at the end of three days. 



Several perfons prefumed that the arrow 

 from which he received the wound, had been, 

 poifoned; but this conjedtu re appeared to mc 

 the lefs probable, as the wound had pcrfedly 

 healed, and the man had been very well for 

 a fortnight ; befides, it was afcertaincd that 

 the arrows which had been found in t^-e caiioe, 

 abandoned by the troAcherous favage, and of 



which 



