I*S TOYAGE IV SEARCH 



who a&ed as caterers of our raefs, all of them were 

 Strict obfervers of (o unjuft a law. 



It was dark when our boat came to fetch us. 

 Riche was glad to take a pafTage with us, rather 

 than remain on fhore ; but he was under the necef- 

 fity of flceping on board the Recherche, although 

 he had the moll urgent occafion to go to the Efpe- 

 ranee ; for it is not indifferent to a naturaliit to 

 be carried back to the place where are depofited 

 the means of prefervation of the fpecimens which 

 he has recently collected. 



A fmall ifland at the diflance of a demi-myria- 

 mcter to the fouth-weft, had been called rile 

 aux Perdrix, Partridge Ifland, by fome of our fea- 

 men who had difcovered it. Citizen Riche and 

 myfeif went thither on the 20th, to fpend the 

 day ; and in lieu of partridges we there found a 

 great number of quails. Is this a mifiake of thofe 

 who had firft vifited it, or had the partridges 

 quitted the ifland ? 



This fmall ifland is in latitude 43 23' 30" 



fouth, and is about two kilometers in length. The 



new fpecics of parfley which T have named apium 



Iratum, grew in abundance on its fhores, 



;oft even with high-water mark. We gathered 



if great quantity of it, which we took on board. 



Several fper.ies of club- wood, cafuarina, covered 



ntry, particularly to the northward; fuch 



cfe trees as were growing on the fhore fecmed 



2 not 



