La Perouse 1 .
The relics of apother unfortunate exploring expedition — that ' of La Perouse at the end of last' century —have just comedo light. JV French missionary to theJSamoa or Navigators islauds in the Pacific informs the French Geographical Society that the remainds of De f Lange and several oth-r ot La Peroutw's companions hire been founds} together with dates proving that thjy perished in Decjjjjbber 1787. Jrench search expedifp^s, in the early par*" of this century ! njid already proved the destruction j ,di' xhe two vessels bearing the ; ._expedition ou the coa,st of Mallicollo, .one of the New Hebrides, by,l nothing ffurture was discovered respecting tae 'explorers themselves.;
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 30, 14 August 1883, Page 3
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