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* M. Renault, captain of the Etoile, also fell in with this same bank of Saya de 
Malba , in 1775, and, after having lost its soundings, made the Isles of Corgados 
Garayos. These authorities seemed to justify me in marking on my chart the 
soundings of these banks, of whose form I am altogether ignorant, as well as their 
extent from east to west, which I have given conformably to the old charts. 
“ I have traced the Isle of Jean de Nove , according to the plan which has been 
laid down by M. Margaro, who commanded the brig the Etoile, in 1776. This 
navigator, on leaving Jean de Nove i fell in with the Isle de la Providence ; and on 
losing sight of that island, he fell in with the Isle Alphonso , to the south-west of 
which, at the distance of five leagues, there are two islets, surrounded with a reef, 
stretching from east to west. 
“ M. Chotard, an officer on board the ship Pondicherry, says in his journal, that, 
in his voyage to India, they fell in with a small island, which he believes to be the 
Isle Sainte Pierre , in 9 0 2 5' latitude; and about eight leagues to the east-north-east, 
they saw another island. He passed along the middle of the channel between these 
two islands, without finding any bottom. 
On the Chart of the Islands and Dangers situate to the North-east of Madagascar, 
between the fourth and eighth Degrees of South Latitude , and the sixty-eighth 
and seventy-fifth of East Longitude. 
ic From the examination which I have made of the course of several ships, 
and the journals that have been sent to me, since I have published my Neptune, I 
have discovered that the Islands of Chagas, and Diego Garcia are one and the same, 
and that the error proceeded from the observation which had been made there in 
1769, compared with that which had been made on board the ship the Pitt, in 1763, I 
have thought it necessary, therefore, to lay down a new chart of the islands, and 
dangers, which make a part of the Archipelago to the north-east of Madagascar. 
" For the construction of this Chart, I have availed myself of the position of six 
islands, whose longitude has been determined by the eclipse of the moon, which 
was observed on board the ship Egmont, the 22d of November, 1760, being about 
ten leagues to the west of the meridian of these isles: a correspondent observation 
was made at Paris; according to which, these isles are in 69° 7' 30" east longitude. 
Their latitude is in 6° 34' south. On board the same vessel, several other isles 
