76 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



Account given by Pierre Magon Upinay, Captain 

 of the Ship Marie- He'Iene, arrived from Bat, 

 to the Chef de Divifion Saint Felix , Comnu 

 on the India Station. 



The commander and officers of the Englifh 

 frigate Syrius, after that ihip was wrecked oil 

 Norfolk Ifland, were conveyrd to Botany B n\ 

 whence they failed in a fmall Dutch veflfcl, 

 which brought them to Batavia at the end of 

 September in that year, after a paffage of about 

 fix months. 



One or two days after having weathered St. 

 George's Channel, very early in the morning 

 they got light of both the Admiralty Iflands to 

 which they were very near ; they had alio 

 founded without finding bottom. 



They faw come out from the iflands. two 

 large canoes, containing about a dozen men, 

 who would not come on board the vcfTel, but 

 approached pretty near her. It was then very 

 moderate weather. The vefTcl had againfl her 

 rather a ftrong current, which drove her off 

 the ifland ; befides, the Dutch Captain was not 

 fond of going near the land. It was remarked, 

 that two of the men who were in the canoes 

 had fafhes fimilar to thofe worn by officers in 

 Europe ; they made figns as if they wifhed to 



be 



