PART the SECOND.

From our entrance into the Western Sea, to our return

to France.

Et nos jam tertia portat

Omnibus errantes terris et[et] fluctibus æstas.

Virg. Lib. I.

CHAP. I.

The run from the straits of Magalhaens to our arrival at the Isle of Taiti; discoveries which precede it.

January. 1768.

Direction of our track, after leaving the strait.