In England,
particularly, he ought long to be remembered with admiration and
gratitude, for the humanity which marked his conduct, when ordered to
destroy our settlement at Hudson's Bay, in the last war. His second
in command was the Chevalier Clonard, an officer also of distinguished
merit.
In the course of the voyage these ships had been so unfortunate as
to lose a boat, with many men and officers in her, off the west of
California; and afterwards met with an accident still more to be
regretted, at an island in the Pacific Ocean, discovered by Monsieur
Bougainville, in the latitude of 14 deg 19 min south, longitude 173 deg
3 min 20 sec east of Paris. Here they had the misfortune to have no less
than thirteen of their crews, among whom was the officer at that time
second in command, cut off by the natives, and many more desperately
wounded. To what cause this cruel event was to be attributed, they knew
not, as they were about to quit the island after having lived with the
Indians in the greatest harmony for several weeks; and exchanged, during
the time, their European commodities for the produce of the place, which
they describe as filled with a race of people remarkable for beauty and
comeliness; and abounding in refreshments of all kinds.
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