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"
And
could
you
tell
me
what
everyone
knows
about
it
?
"
he
inquired
,
ironically
.
"
Easily
.
"
I
related
to
him
all
that
the
last
works
of
Dumont
d’Urville
had
made
known
--
works
from
which
the
following
is
a
brief
account
.
La
Perouse
,
and
his
second
,
Captain
de
Langle
,
were
sent
by
Louis
XVI
,
in
1785
,
on
a
voyage
of
circumnavigation
.
They
embarked
in
the
corvettes
Boussole
and
the
Astrolabe
,
neither
of
which
were
again
heard
of
.
In
1791
,
the
French
Government
,
justly
uneasy
as
to
the
fate
of
these
two
sloops
,
manned
two
large
merchantmen
,
the
Recherche
and
the
Esperance
,
which
left
Brest
the
28th
of
September
under
the
command
of
Bruni
d’Entrecasteaux
.
Two
months
after
,
they
learned
from
Bowen
,
commander
of
the
Albemarle
,
that
the
debris
of
shipwrecked
vessels
had
been
seen
on
the
coasts
of
New
Georgia
.
But
D’Entrecasteaux
,
ignoring
this
communication
--
rather
uncertain
,
besides
--
directed
his
course
towards
the
Admiralty
Islands
,
mentioned
in
a
report
of
Captain
Hunter
's
as
being
the
place
where
La
Perouse
was
wrecked
.
They
sought
in
vain
.
The
Esperance
and
the
Recherche
passed
before
Vanikoro
without
stopping
there
,
and
,
in
fact
,
this
voyage
was
most
disastrous
,
as
it
cost
D’Entrecasteaux
his
life
,
and
those
of
two
of
his
lieutenants
,
besides
several
of
his
crew
.
Captain
Dillon
,
a
shrewd
old
Pacific
sailor
,
was
the
first
to
find
unmistakable
traces
of
the
wrecks
.
On
the
15th
of
May
,
1824
,
his
vessel
,
the
St.
Patrick
,
passed
close
to
Tikopia
,
one
of
the
New
Hebrides
.
There
a
Lascar
came
alongside
in
a
canoe
,
sold
him
the
handle
of
a
sword
in
silver
that
bore
the
print
of
characters
engraved
on
the
hilt
.
The
Lascar
pretended
that
six
years
before
,
during
a
stay
at
Vanikoro
,
he
had
seen
two
Europeans
that
belonged
to
some
vessels
that
had
run
aground
on
the
reefs
some
years
ago
.
Dillon
guessed
that
he
meant
La
Perouse
,
whose
disappearance
had
troubled
the
whole
world
.
He
tried
to
get
on
to
Vanikoro
,
where
,
according
to
the
Lascar
,
he
would
find
numerous
debris
of
the
wreck
,
but
winds
and
tides
prevented
him
.
Dillon
returned
to
Calcutta
.
There
he
interested
the
Asiatic
Society
and
the
Indian
Company
in
his
discovery
.
A
vessel
,
to
which
was
given
the
name
of
the
Recherche
,
was
put
at
his
disposal
,
and
he
set
out
,
23rd
January
,
1827
,
accompanied
by
a
French
agent
.
The
Recherche
,
after
touching
at
several
points
in
the
Pacific
,
cast
anchor
before
Vanikoro
,
7th
July
,
1827
,
in
that
same
harbour
of
Vanou
where
the
Nautilus
was
at
this
time
.
