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In spite of the eagerness of the young officers to go and enjoy themselves on shore they had to submit to a quarantine of four days, on account of rumours of cases of plague having occurred in the lazaretto of Marseilles. Without pausing to relate the details of Messrs. Du Bouzet, Coupvent, and Dumoulin's ascent of the Peak, we will merely quote a few enthusiastic remarks of Coupvent Desbois:
Bellinghausen, yet another Russian explorer Discovery of the islands of Traversay, Peter I., and Alexander I. The whaler, Weddell The Southern Orkneys New Shetland The people of Tierra del Fuego John Biscoe and the districts of Enderby and Graham Charles Wilkes and the Antarctic Continent Captain Balleny Dumont d'Urville's expedition in the Astrolabe and the Zelée Coupvent Desbois and the Peak of Teneriffe The Straits of Magellan A new post-office shut in by ice Louis Philippe's Land Across Oceania Adélie and Clarie Lands New Guinea and Torres Strait Return to France James Clark Rosset Victoria.
Two corvettes, the Astrolabe and the Zelée, fitted up with everything which French experience had proved to be necessary, were placed at his disposal, and amongst his colleagues were many who were subsequently to rise to the rank of general officers, including Jacquinot, commander of the Zelée, Coupvent Desbois, Du Bouzet, Tardy de Montravel, and Perigot, all well-known names to those interested in the history of the French navy.
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