THE TRANSLATOR S PREFACE. XXltl 



In the Malay, CapeDiemen, Friendly Iflands., 

 New Caledonia, and Waygiou vocabularies, at 

 the end of the fecond volume, I have adapted 

 the orthography as nearly as poffible to the 

 Englifh pronunciation. 



The main object of M. D'Entrecafteaux's 

 voyage having been to fearch for La Peroufe, 

 I now fubjoin, for the fatisfaclion of the reader, 

 the tranflation of an extract of the lafl letter 

 written by that unfortunate navigator to the 

 Marfhal De Cajiries, then Minifier of the 

 French Marine, in which he fpecifies the track 

 that he intended to follow on his departure from 

 New South Wales, in March 1788. 



tf Botany Bay, jth February 1788. 

 <c I ftiall again make a run to the Friendly 

 " Iflands, and I fhall ftrictly perform every 

 <c thing that has been enjoined me by my in- 

 (e flructions, in regard to the fouth part of 

 <e New Caledonia, Mendana's Ifland of Santa 

 " Cruz, the fouthern coaft of Surville's Terre 

 M des Arfactdesj and the land called by Bou- 

 <e gainville La Louifiade, and endeavour to 

 b 4 afcer- 



