iRjfc: font out again with a 64 ■January. ° * gun fhip called the Roland, and
the frigate 1’Oifeau, captain Rofnevet; but after having
juft feen the land, which he had difcovered in his former
voyage, he returned without making farther difcoverieS.
The northern coaft of the land which he difcovered/ is
fituated in about 48 degrees fouth latitude, and about 8 2
degrees eaft longitude from Ferro, or 6 degrees eaft of the
Ifle of France, (i. e, in about 64° 20'eaft from Greenwich.)
M. de Marion in his expedition of 1772, in January,
fell in with fmall iflands in three different places, about
the latitude of 46-r^ and 47/, and about the longitudes
of 370, 4 6f° , and 487° eaft from Greenwich. Thefe
iflands were all of inconfiderable extent, high, rocky,
deftitute of trees, and almoft entirely barren. M. de
Marion had two fhips under his command, one the Maf-
carin, captain Crozet, the other the Caftrie, captain Du
Clefm-ure. They proceeded to the fouthern extremity of
New Holland, or Diemen’s land, firft feen by Tafman ;
and from thence to the bay of iflands in New Zeeland,
where M. de Marion was killed with 28 of his men by
, the natives, of which more fhall be faid in the fequel.
After this lofs M. de Crozet, on whom the command devolved,
paffed through the weftern part of the South Sea
to the Philippinas, from whence he returned to the Ifle de
France. Agreeably to thefe accounts, the difcoverifes of
die French voyagers have been laid down in an excellent
under the direffion of the duke de Croy, and publilhed
in March 1773.
On the 31 ft ip the evening, our latitude being nearly
that of so° fouth, we paffed by a. large ifland of ice,
which at that inftant crumbled to pieces with a tremendous
explofioo. The next morning a bundle of fea weeds Monday >;
was feen floating paft the flopp ; and in the afternoon,
captain Furneaux in the Adventure haying hailed us,
acquainted captain Cook that he hat) fe.en a number of
divers, refembling thofe in the Englifh feas, and had paft a
great bed of floating rock-weeds. In confcquencc of thefe
obfervations yve flood off and on during night, and continued
an eafterly cpurfe the next morning. We faw many petrels ^“ fday-,.
and black fliear-waters, fome xo,ck-w,eed, and a Angle tern
(fierna) or as the feamen call it an egg-bird, which had a
forked tail. At noon-we o.bferv.ed in 48° 36' fouth latitude,
which was nearly the fame in which the French dif-
co.veries are faid to he fituated. After noon we flood fouth.
weftward, hut the next day the gale .encreafed to fuch ,a
degree, as obliged us to hand our toplails, and Hand on
under the CQurlcs all night: however, at eight o’clock on
the 4th, we found a fmppth fea again, and fet more fail,
changing our courfe to the north-weftward at noon. On
the dth our latitude at noon was nearly 48 degrees fouth,
about 6 o degrees eaft from Greenwich, when not feeing
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