Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XLVI.--Louis XVI. and the Science of Navigation--Voyage

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of Lapérouse--Arrival at Easter Island--Address of the Natives--Owhyhee--Trade at Mowee--Survey of the American Coast--A Remarkable Inlet--Distressing Calamity--Sojourn at Monterey--Run across the Pacific--The Japanese Waters--Arrival at Petropaulowski--Affray at Navigators' Isles--Lapérouse arrives at Botany Bay, and is never seen again, alive or dead--Voyages made in Search of him--D'Entrecasteaux--Dillon--D'Urville--Discovery of numerous Relics of the Ships at Manicolo--Theory of the Fate of Lapérouse--Erection of a Monument to his Memory 480