



THX 



TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. 



JL HE Voyage in fearch of La P&roufe had long 

 ceafed to engage the attention of the curious, 

 and even feemed almoft to have efcaped the me- 

 mory of the general clafs of readers, when, aftec 

 a lapfe of feven years, one of the Naturalifts emi 

 barked on the expedition, recently publifhed an 

 account of it, a correct and unmutilated tranfla- 

 tion of which will be found in the following 

 fheets; but, as M. Labillardierej in his Introduc- 

 tion, has not affigned any reafon for the tardy 

 appearance of his work, it may perhaps be not 

 altogether uninterefting to ftate briefly the prin- 

 cipal caufes which have occafioned this delay. 



It will be feen towards the end of the Second 

 Volume, that, after the death of Captain Huon 



and 



