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NARRATIVE
AND
SUCCESSFUL RESULT
OF A
VOYAGE IN THE SOUTH SEAS,
PERFORMED BY ORDER OF THE
GOVERNMENT OF BRITISH INDIA,
TO ASCERTAIN
THE ACTUAL FATE OF
LA PEROUSE's EXPEDITION,
INTERSPERSED WITH
ACCOUNTS OF THE RELIGION, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND CANNIBAL PRACTICES
OF THE
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS.
BY THE
CHEVALIER CAPT. P. DILLON,
Member of the Legion of Honour; of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, and of the Geographical Society of Paris:
Commander of the Hon. East-India Company's Ship Research.
LONDON:
HURST, CHANCE, AND CO., ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.
1829.
