expectedly diſcovered the iſlands upon which he was caſt away.
I, the underwritten, certify that the above narrative is conformable to what I have collected from different converſations with the officers of the Sirius, who had arrived at Batavia after the ſhipwreck of that frigate, in a ſmall Dutch veſſel, with which I was in company during the month of October.
(Signed)Magon Lepinay.
- Iſle de France, 31ſt Oct. 1791.
As Commodore Hunter was at the Cape of Good Hope, on his return from Batavia to England, at the moment when we arrived there; we had reaſon to expect that we ſhould receive from him every poſſible information concerning what he had ſeen at the Admiralty lands; but were ſurprized to hear that he had ſailed from the Cape two hours after we had caſt anchor. He was probably well acquainted with the object of our expedition; for we were expected at the Cape, and our Commander's flag muſt have convinced him that theſe were the ſhips ſent in ſearch of La Pérouſe. It appeared very aſtoniſhing to us, that he had not attempted to convey to us even the ſcanty information which Préaudet and Magon Lépinay had collected from himſelf and
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