id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 4222 Scott, Ernest, Sir Laperouse .txt text/plain 22317 1064 72 Australia as known at the time of Laperouse's visit sailed the ocean in command of great ships, he continued to read all ignorant man to discover islands, but it belongs only to great men like Laperouse's ship, the FORMIDABLE, was one of the French fleet of and writings of Cook; and copies of his VOYAGES, in French and English, Bay. It was the visit paid by Laperouse to this port that brought him off." Steering north, the Sandwich Islands were reached early in May. Here Laperouse liked the people, "though my prejudices were coast which Captain King, in the third volume of Cook's last voyage, It was then that Laperouse resolved to sail to Botany Bay, of which he little book knows by this time that the visit to Botany Bay was not A new French voyage of exploration came down to the Pacific in 1817, had been early French navigators to the South Seas before Laperouse. ./cache/4222.txt ./txt/4222.txt