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foon as day appeared on the nth, and announced 

 to us that the ftorm was at an end. 



The fea having fallen confiderably, Captain 

 Huon fent his boat on board of the Recherche 

 to inform us, that, the day before, the Efperance 

 had been carried fo rapidly towards the land, 

 that the was on the point of running afhore, 

 when Citizen Legrand, an officer of diftinguiihed 

 merit, had in the height of the gale gone to the 

 maft-head, and had come down again almof]: 

 immediately, calling out with rapture, that the 

 fhip was clear of the danger, He defcribed the 

 iituation of the anchorage which he had dis- 

 covered, and affirmed that a vcfTel might ride 

 there in fafety. The falvation of the two fhips 

 depended on this difcovery; for, had the Re- 

 cherche been obliged to ply during the night iij 

 the midft of thefe dangerous fhoals, after having 

 Struggled as long as the had been able againir. 

 the violence of the gale, in hopes that a fhift of 

 wind would allow her to gain the open fea, fhe 

 would infallibly have been loft. 



This bay, which bears the name of Citizen 

 I^egrand, will recall to mind the lignal fervice 

 rendered to our expedition by this ikilful fea- 

 man : his advice had been to anchor nearer the 

 |and, and it was unlucky that .it had not been 

 followed; for the chain which the Efperance had 

 f^ft to her fmall bower anchor, had mapped 

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