1Zj6 VOYAGE TO MABAGASCAR* 



that he was ignorant even of the mofl com- 

 mon and technical terms ufed in navigation, 

 leaves no document, or certain traces of the 

 courfe which he fays he purfned. 



This accufation is not made without fuffi- 

 cient reafon, I appeal for the juftnefs of 

 it, to all tliofe who, like me, faw him arrive 

 from Canton at the Ifle of France. They 

 will all certify, that, with a view to render 

 the account of his adventures more roman- 

 tic, he publicly declared, that in a fmall vef- 

 fel badly equipped, and almoft deftitute of 

 provifions, or rather having nothing to fub- 

 fift on but dried fifh, he quitted, on his de- 

 parture fiom Kamfchatka, the Afiatic coaft 

 in order to go to America, Over and above, 

 this intrepid adventurer was not afraid to 

 Sffirra before experienced feamen, that he 

 went on Ihore on fome unknow*n land, 

 fituated to the north of Cafifornia* This 

 ftrange aflertion gives rife to a multitude of 



objeQions. 



