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ever, we obferved im fome gardens, the 
Colocziia, the: Caribbee cabbage, the ba- 
mana tree, and the fugar-cane. Fhe co- 
coa tree bears but very diminutive fruit, 
-the water of waich is far frem being plea- 
+ 
The barbarous euftoms of the natives 
id not prevent our reiterated excurfions 
into the interior parts of the country. 
Om thefe occafons, we kent together to 
the number of twenty, always well armed. 
As evening came on, we commonly took 
our ftation on fome elevated poft in the 
mountains, where we pafied the night in 
wi fituation which protected us front hoftile 
aflaults.. To guard againft furprize, we 
_ kept watch by turns. } 
Obfervations made for twenty days to- 
gether in this extenfive region, of which 
ForsTeR had but a. ghmpf, (being 
fick all the eight days of his being off 
the ifland} furnifhed us with a variety of 
pore! materials, efpecially im the vege- 
table kingdom. 
On the 6th of May, we loft Citizen 
Huon, Captain of the Efperance. He 
Kad been for fome time before aflited 
-with an incurable marafmus.. We buried 
“him in Obfervatiou Wand. 
May goth, we weighed anchor, and 
‘failed before the wind for the north. In 
eur courfe, we obferved the eaftern part 
cof the reefs and iflands, the weftern fide of 
‘which we faw the year before. 
May 21%, we were clofe on the ifland 
ef Sazet Croix, and. fent in twe beats to 
Yook out for an anchoring place. While 
the failors were employed in founding, 
ene of the natives, at the diftance of up- 
wards of eighty paces, lanced an arrow, 
schich flightly wounded the forehead of 
ene of them. A volley of’ fire-arms, 
however, foon difperied the groupe of 
canoes which had furrounded the beats, 
snd from which the lance proceeded. Al- 
though the wound was apparently fo in- 
confiderable, it was attended with a #et2- 
aus which proved mortal to the unfer- 
“tunate fatlor after only eight days. “Fhe 
arrow did not appear to us to have been 
potfoned, as it is well known that beatts 
pierced with the fame weapons do not ex- 
erience any fatal fymptoms. In India, . 
itis ao uncommon thing to fee the flightelt 
punéiure followed by 2 fpafm, which is a 
certain forerunner of death. 
After this, we proceeded to vifit the 
Arfacides Ulanids; and that part of Lowi/- 
ade which BouGatNVilL® did not ex- 
plore, the nostherm part of which is very 
cificult of accets. We anchored after 
this near fome very lofty mountains on the 
Voyage round the World, by the French, in 1791-2- 3. fSups 
fouth-eaft coat of Neaw Guineg.~ After 
having pafled through Dampir’s Streights, 
we difcovere¢ the northern fide of Netu 
Britain*. ; 
July 6th and 47th; we failed in view 
of the Aachoret-Iflands of BowGArIR- 
VILLE. 
July zoth, we loh# ExTRECASTRAUX, 
our Captain. fie died of convulfions, a 
fit of which was fucceeded by a fpeechlefs - 
ftupor. 
After having taken fome notice of 
-Trattor’s Wands, and part of the elevated 
lands. of New Guinea; we anchored at 
Waiziore. . 
Aug. 16th, 1793, in 129° 14/ Of ealt 
longitude, and fo near the equator, that 
we were only half a minute to the fouth. 
Here the inhabitants browght us very 
large fea-turtles, the foup of which we 
experienced to be a falutary remedy for 
the feurvy, which was now prevalent 
among us. 
In this ifland we procured a number of 
interefting obie&s, and quitied it Auguit 
29th, and failed for Bowzvo, where we 
anchored September 3d, 1793. In this 
mountainous ifle, wuere the productions 
of nature are extremely varied, we hada 
-favourable opportunity of continuing out 
botanical refearches, &e. 
We pafied threugh Bziien’s Streights, 
from September 23d to O&ober oth, fre- 
quentiy coming to anchor and going afnore 
for the fake of enlarging our colletions. 
Here feverah of cur men died of a con- 
tagious bilious dyfentery, contra&ted in 
the low marfhy grounds of this country. 
Oct. 28, 1793, we caft anchor im the 
road of Souraiayn, in the ile of Fava. 
Here divifions broke out among the erews, 
in confequence of gainine intelligence of 
the further progreis of the French Reyo- 
lution. D°AvuRIBEAU infamoully hoift- 
ed the white flag; Feb. roth, 1794, and 
fhamefully furrendeved the twe veilels to 
the Dutch. He alio {eived all the jour- 
nals, charts, anti memoirs, which were 
conneéted with the voyage, and in the 
moft daftarcly manner airefted-all thee of 
the fhip’s companies that were ebnoxious 
to his own political fenti@ents. One 

* The whole extent of this navigation is 
extremely dangerous: for a length of 1200 
leagues (French) a line of recks ov breakers, 
nearly leveb with the water, runs along the 
bottom of the fea. In this route, it is pro= 
bable that tne unfortunate Le Peproufe pe- 
rifhed, unlefS, as was fuppofed at the times» 
his veffel foundered in 
the dreadful tempett 
of Dec: 33; 1788, = ’ 
journal, 
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