THE TRANSLATOR^ PREFACE. XVU 



they caufed all the officers, naturalifts, and fuch 

 of the people belonging to the two fhips as they 

 thought would efpoufe the republican caufe,. to 

 be apprehended and thrown into prifon. M. 

 Dauribeau at the fame time feized upon all the 

 collections of the naturalifts, and foon after pre- 

 vailed on the Governor of Samarang to caufe 

 their effects to ,be fearched, in order to get pof- 

 feffion of the manufcripts containing the obfer- 

 vations which they had made during the voyage ; 

 but M. Labillardiere and his friend M. Legrand 

 faved their journals. The officers and other per* 

 fons of the republican party were in the fequel 

 transferred to the prifons of Batavia, and after a 

 long confinement in the vicinity of that un- 

 healthy fpot, were exchanged, and fent to the 

 Ifle of France. The Recherche and the Efpe- 

 rance being left without men fufficient to navi- 

 gate them, an inventory was taken of their fur- 

 niture, itores, &c. by commiffioners appointed 

 on both fides ; and thefe, together with the fhips, 

 were received by the Regency of Batavia to an- 

 fwer the advances made in provifions, and in 

 other kinds of fuccour afforded to the officers 

 vol. i. b and 



