The mystery of Easter island: the story of an expedition

by Katherine Routledge

[30]. Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, 4to edn., London, 1799. Vol. i., pp. 319–36.

[31]. MS. copy in the British Museum of a letter sent by one of the officers of the Spanish ship to a Canon or a Prebendary in Buenos Aires. MSS. 17607 (18). Our attention was drawn to this document by Dr. Corney.

[32]. See above, p. 171.

[33]. Voyage of Gonzalez, p. 126.

[34]. Voyage Round the World in the Ship “Neva,” Lisiansky, Lond. 1814, p. 58.

[35]. Voyage to the Pacific, H.M.S. “Blossom,” p. 41.

[36]. See Annales de la Propagation de la Foi, 1866, 1867, 1869.

[37]. Journal Ethnological Society, Vol. i. p. 373.

[38]. The above statement is made on the authority of Mr. John Brander of Tahiti. According to report of H.M.S. Sappho, which visited the island in 1882, Salmon was then an agent of the Maison Brander.

[39]. Smithsonian Report, 1889.