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110 expectedly dicovered the ilands upon which he was cat away.

I, the underwritten, certify that the above narrative is conformable to what I have collected from different converations with the officers of the Sirius, who had arrived at Batavia after the hipwreck of that frigate, in a mall Dutch veel, with which I was in company during the month of October. (Signed)
 * Ile de France, 31t 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 reaon to expect that we hould receive from him every poible information concerning what he had een at the Admiralty lands; but were urprized to hear that he had ailed from the Cape two hours after we had cat anchor. He was probably well acquainted with the object of our expedition; for we were expected at the Cape, and our Commander's flag mut have convinced him that thee were the hips ent in earch of La Péroue. It appeared very atonihing to us, that he had not attempted to convey to us even the canty information which Préaudet and Magon Lépinay had collected from himelf and his