We logged 9,720 miles when we passed between the Tonga Islands, where crews from the Argo, Port-au-Prince, and Duke of Portland had perished, and the island group of Samoa, scene of the slaying of Captain de Langle, friend of that long-lost navigator, the Count de La Pérouse.
Wij gingen door tusschen den Archipel van Tonga-Tabou, waar de Argo, de Port-au-Prince en de Duke of Portland vergingen, en dien van de Schippers-eilanden, waar kapitein de Langle, de vriend van La Pérouse, vermoord werd.