A Voyage Round the World
Translated by John Reinhold Forster
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CHAP. I. Departure of the Boudeufe from Nantes; puts in at Breji ; run from Breji to Montevideo ; jun5fion with the Spanijfj frigates y intended for taking pojfefjion of the Malouines, or Falkland's iflands.
Departure from France clearing the Straits of Magalhaens.
Departure of the Boudeufe from Nantes; puts in at Breji; run from Breji to Montevideo; jun5fion with the Spanijfj frigates y intended for taking pojfefjion of the Malouines, or Falkland’s iflands.
IN February 1764, France began to make a fettlement on the Ifles Malouines. Spain reclaimed thefe ifles as belonging to the continent of South America; and her right to them having been acknowledged by the king, I received orders to deliver our fettlement to the Spaniards, and to proceed to the Eaft hidies by croffing the South Seas between the Tropics. For this expedition I received the command of the frigate la Boudeufe, of twenty-fix twelve-pounders, and I was to be joined at the Malouines by the llore-fhip I’Etoile, which was intended to bring me the provifions necefTary for a voyage of fiich a length, and to follow nie during the whole expedition. Several circumftances retarded the juncT:ion of this ftore-veflel, and confcquently made my whole voyage near eight months longer than it would otherwife have been.
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