"Celebes," he says, "is the key to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, which are necessarily under the power of the people who are masters of this island. The town of Macassar is built upon a promontory, and is watered by one or two rivers which cross it or flow in its vicinity. The ground is even and beautiful in appearance. There are many plantations and cocoa-nut woods, interspersed with houses, which convey the idea that it is well populated. "At Bonthain the beef is excellent, but it is difficult to procure enough of it to feed a fleet. Fowls, and as much rice and fruits as can be wished, are procurable. The woods abound with wild pigs, which are to be had cheap, because the natives, being Mohamedans, do not eat them." These details, however incomplete, had great interest at the time they were collected, and we go so far as to believe, that even now, some hundred years since they were first written, they yet contain a certain amount of truth. No incident marked the voyage to Batavia. After several delays, caused by the desire of the Dutch Company to make Carteret give them a testimonial as to the treatment he had met with from the government of Macassar, and which he steadily refused, Carteret at last obtained permission to repair his vessel. On the 15th of September, the _Swallow_, partially refitted, set sail. She was reinforced with a supplementary number of English sailors, without which it would have been impossible to regain Europe. Eighty of her original crew were dead, and eighty more were so reduced that seven of their number died before they reached the Cape. After a stay in this port, a most salutary one for the crew, which lasted until the 6th of January, 1769, Carteret set out once more, and a little beyond Ascension Island, at which he had touched, he met a French vessel. It was the frigate, _La Boudeuse_, with which Bougainville had just been round the world. On the 20th of March the _Swallow_ anchored in Spithead roadstead, after thirty-one months of a voyage as painful as it had been dangerous. All Carteret's nautical ability, all his _sang-froid_, all his enthusiasm were needed to save so inefficient a vessel from destruction, and to make important discoveries, under such conditions. If the perils of the voyage, add lustre to his renown, the shame of such a miserable equipment falls upon the English Admiralty, who, despising the representations of an able captain, risked his life and the lives of his crew upon so long a voyage. III. Bougainville--A notary's son metamorphosed--Colonization of the Malouine Islands--Buenos Ayres and Rio Janeiro--The Malouines relinquished to the Spaniards--Hydrography of the Strait of Magellan-- The Pecherais--The Quatre Facardius--Tahiti--Incidents of the stay there--Productions of the country and manners of the inhabitants-- Samoa Islands--The Land of the Holy Spirit or the New Hebrides--The Louisiade--The Anchorite Isles--New Guinea--Boutan--From Batavia to St. Malo.