HISTORY OF MAURITIUS. 
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“ April 16. In the morning we discovered the Isle Rodriguez. 
<l 18. In the morning we discovered the Isle Rcnde , and afterwards the Isle of 
France at four P. M. we anchored at the entrance of the port. 
“ 19. At half past eight I landed, and waited upon M. Bouvet, the Governor, 
■who ordered me an apartment in the government house, and gave orders to prepare 
a place where I might fix my instruments. 
“ July 13* We set out to commence our operations. We were accompanied 
with a detachment of five soldiers, two corporals, and nine blacks, five from the coast 
of Malabar, and four from Guinea. We had a tent, and a pirogue to carry our 
effects, as well as to cross the arms of the sea, or the deep bays which are very 
common-in these islands. We slept this night at the house of M. de Rostaing. 
“ 19. We employed the whole of this day in going to encamp at a place called 
.la Poudre d'Or. The road is very difficult, and crossed by three arms of the sea. 
We passed one in the pirogue, and waded through the two others, the water being 
up to our middle, during the space of half a quarter of a league. 
"22. We went in the pirogue to the post of Fayette , where I made an observation. 
We afterwards encamped half a league further on. In the afternoon the pirogue was 
dragged on shore, to get it over land, within the reefs that line the coasts, for the 
space of half a league. 
“ 23. An heavy rain in the morning, which pierced through the tent. In the 
afternoon we launched the pirogue. 
<l 24. We went in the pirogue to observe the point of Flacq; and from thence 
to the Puits des Hollandois , where we encamped. 
“ 25. We went to make an observation at the Baraque a Farine, and from thence 
to the point of Quatre Cocos , where we encamped. 
“ 26. We left our camp at Quatre Cocos , and went in the pirogue to the principal 
.port, to examine the mountains which are in its vicinity. We arrived there at half 
past eleven in the morning. 
“27. We passed in a canoe to the Isle of Egrettes to take a view of the moun¬ 
tains, and left a signal there. 
“ 28. M. Desny went to clear the summit of the mountain of Creoles, and to 
leave a signal on it. M. Godin and myself went to the ls\t.Marianne, and to the 
point du Diable: we sent for our people from Quatre Cocos. 
• s< 30. We left the principal port in a large canoe, and disembarked a little beyond 
