Narrative of the surveying voyages of his majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle (vol.1): between the years 1826 and 1836 : describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagles's circumnavigation of the globe

70 bougainville''s memorial. Jan. 1827 and a copy of a document that had previously been deposited there % 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 consi- derable difficulty that any of the writing could be decyphered, for the papers, having been doubled up, were tora, 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 Enghsh. The legible part of the former was as follows : Viatori Benevolo salus que a periculose admodum naviga Brasilia Bonarve et insularum incertis freti Magellanici portubus. . . historia astronomia. . . .... Boug Boug .... Duclos et de la Giranda 2 navium • Primaris .... ComersoD . . . .Doct med naturalista Regio accu....m. Veron astronomo de Romainville hidrographio a rege Cliristianissimo demandans Landais Lavan Fontaine navium Loco tenentibus et V^exillariis itineris locus DD Dervi Lemoyne .... RioufFe voluntariis. vives scriba Anno MDCCLXVI. The Latin inscription of Cordova was as follows : Benevolo Navigator! Salutem Anno Domini MDCCLXXXVIII Vir celeberrimus DD Antonius de Cordova Laso de Vega navibus duabus {quarum nomina SS Casilda et Eulalia erant ad scrutamen Magellanici freti subsequendum undque littorum, portuum aliorumque notabilium iter iterum fecit. e Gadibus classis tertio nonas Octobris habenas immittit quarto idus ejusdem Nova vidit