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A VOYAGE TO 
1776. 
December. 
^ a . ILI 
Ludovico XV Gallmrum 
rege ? et d. * de Boynes 
regi a Secretis ad res 
maritimas annis 1772 et 
1773• 
From this infcription, it is clear, that we were not the 
firft Europeans who had been in this harbour. I fuppofed it 
to be left by Monfieur de Boifguehenneu, who went on 
fhore in a boat on the 13th of February 1772, the fame day 
that Monfieur de Kerguelen difcovered this land; as ap¬ 
pears by a Note in the French Chart of the Southern He- 
mifphere, publifhed the following year t. 
As 
* The (d) y no doubt is a contraction of the word Domino. The French Secretary of 
the Marine was then Monfieur de Boynes. 
-j- Onperufing this paragraph of the journal, it will be natural to afk, How could Mon¬ 
fieur de Boifguehenneu, in the beginning of 1772, leave an infcription, which, upon the very 
face of it, commemorates a tranfaction of the following year ? Captain Cook’s manner of 
expreffing himfelf here, ftrongly marks, that he made this fuppofition, only for want of 
information to enable him to make any other. He had no idea that the French had vi- 
fited this land a fecond time; and, reduced to the neceffity of trying to accommodate 
what he faw himfelf, to what little he had heard of their proceedings, he confounds a 
tranfaction which we, who have been better inftructed, know, for a certainty, belongs to 
the fecond Voyage, with a fimilar one, which his Chart of the Southern Hemifphere has 
recorded, and which happened in a different year, and at a different place. 
The bay, indeed, in which Monfieur de Boifguehenneu landed, is upon the Weft 
fide of this land, confiderably to the South of Cape Louis, and not far from another 
more Southerly promontory, called Cape Bourbon; a part of the coaft which our fhips 
were not upon. Its fituation is marked upon our Chart; and a particular view of the 
bay du Lion Marin (for fo Boifguehenneu called it), with the foundings, is preferved by 
Kerguelen. 
But if the bottle and infcription found by Captain Cook’s people were not left here by 
Boifguehenneu, by whom and when were they left ? This we learn moft fatisfaftorily, 
from the accounts of Kerguelen’s fecond Voyage, as publifhed by himfelf and Monfieur 
de Pages, which prefent us with the following particulars : That they arrived on the 
Weft fide of this land on the 14th of December 1773 j that, fleering to the North Eaft, 
they 
