and a copy of a document that had previously been deposited there by M. de Bougainville. With these papers was found a Spanish two-rial piece of Carlos III., which had been bent to admit of its being put into the bottle. It was with considerable difficulty that any of the writing could be decyphered, for the papers, having been doubled up, were torn, and the words defaced at the foldings, and edges.
Bougainville's memorial was in Latin. Cordova's, besides a document in Latin, was accompanied by an account of his voyage, written in four languages, Spanish, French, Italian, and English. The legible part of the former was as follows:—
Viatori Benevolo salus . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . que a periculose admodum naviga . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . Brasilie Bonarve et insularum . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . incertis freti Magellanici portubus . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . historia astronomia . . . .
. . . . Boug . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . Boug . . . . Duclos et de la Giranda 2 navium . .