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DAGELET ISLAIfD. 
Chinese race has so far suppressed the nationality 
of their former conquerors that even in his ov/n 
capital, Monkden, the Manchu is hardly his own 
master. And’ yet the IManchu seems to have 
indelibly impressed his mark on the Chinese, 
for the long, plaited tail now so universally a 
characteristic of a Chinaman, was originally im- 
posed upon them by the Manclms. 
AYe 2)roceeded next to Dagelet Island where we 
arrived on the 28 th June, at which 2>Griod the 
weather was in every way favourable for its exami- 
nation. It is one of the discoveries of La Perouse, 
and named after the astronomer of the Astrolabe. 
As we j)ulled towards the island I found the 
descrijDtion of the renowned navigator very exact. 
‘‘Yeiy steep,” as he says, “but covered with fine 
trees from the sea-shore to the summit. A ramj^art 
of bare rock nearly as perpendicular as a wall com- 
jfietely surrounds it, except seven little sandy coves 
at which it is possible to land.” 
AVe saw the grand central ^^euk towering four 
thousand feet above us, partially enveloj>ed in 
