OF LA PEROUSE. 77, 



be fhaved ; Several of them had on their clothes 

 pieces of red and blue cloth, which proved that 

 they had had fome communication with Euro- 

 peans. As Captain Hunter, commander of the 

 Syrius, had, before his departure from Botany 

 Bay, learned from La Peroufe himfelf that his 

 plan was to pafs through St. George's Channel, 

 the officers of that frigate are all perfuaded, 

 that he had unexpectedly fallen in with thefe 

 iflands, and been there loft. 



I, the underwritten, do certify, that this ac- 

 count is conformable to what 1 have gathered 

 from different converfations with the officers of 

 the Syrius frigate, who, after that frigate was 

 wrecked, arrived at Batavia, in a fmall Dutch 

 veffel that was there when I was in- the month of 

 O&ober. 



(Signed) Magon Lepinay. 



TJle of France, 

 2\Ji Oclober 1791. 



As Commodore Hunter, returning from Ba- 

 tavia with his commiffioned officers, in order to 

 proceed to England, was at the Cape of Good 

 Hope at the moment of our arrival there, we had 

 a right to exped to receive all poffible information 



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