86 
A VOYAGE TO 
CHAPTER X. 
Depai'ttire of the French JJnps — Death of M. Le Receveur— Return 
of the Supply from Norfolk Ifland—Defcription of that Place — 
Howe Jfland difcovered. 
CHAP. 1 0th of March, the French fhips failed from 
^..,.^^1^ Botany Bay. M. De la Peyroufe during his ll:ay 
March loth, there had fet up two long boats, the frames of which he 
' ' had brought with him from Europe. There had not 
been much intercourfe between the French and Englifh 
in this interval : both being too bufily employed to 
wafte their time in parties of pleafure. Captain Clo- 
nard had waited on Governor Phillip with the letters 
which were to be forvv^arded to the French ambaffador ; 
and a few of the Englifli officers had gone over by land 
about the fame time to pay a vifit in Botany Bay ; both 
parties were of courfe received with politenefs and hof- 
pitalitv. Some few of the convi61:s contrived to abfcond, 
and endeavoured to get admitted into the French fliips, 
but were, with great propriety, rejccSled. Thofe veffcls 
returned 
