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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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MASSACUE BAY. Did the French Government try to find out anything about theirfate? Oh, certainly. They sent an expedition to the South Seas, but itreturned without the least information. Then they sent a circular toambassadors, consuls, and other officials, at the courts of all the powersof tlie world, and to scientific societies and commercial associations,asking them in the name of humanity to search for any trace of themissing expedition, and offering to reward any one who rendered assist-ance to survivors, or gave any information about the fate of La Perouseand his companions. 144 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. And it took thirty-eight years to get the desired information ? Yes. All inquiries of navigators and others came to nothing, and gradually the fate of La Perouse was considered a problem impossible of solution. On the 13th of May, 1826, an Enghsh trading-ship from Calcutta, the St. Patrick, Captain Peter Dillon, touched at the island of
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A VILLAGE IN VANIKORO. Tucopia, in latitude 12° 21 south, longitude 168° 33 east. Find itsposition on the map, and then Ill tell what Captain Dillon discoveredthere. Frank and Fred eagerly scanned the map, and by following the linesof latitude and longitude they speedily located Tucopia. It is betweenthe Solomon and New Hebrides groups, and lies nearly due north-westfrom the Feejees, and a little north of west from Samoa. Captain Dillon, continued the Doctor, found there a French-man named Martin Buchert, whom he had known at the Feejees thir-teen years before, and also a Lascar sailor who had landed at Tucopiawith Buchert. The meeting of Dillon and Buchert was an interestingone; and so much was Dillon absorbed with it, that he did not at first CAPTAIN DILLONS DISCOVERY. 145 notice a silver sword-hilt which the Lascar wore suspended by a stringaround his neck. While he was talking with Buchert, the Lascar soldthe sword-hilt to the ships armorer for a few fish-hooks. The nativesthat

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