GretagMacbeth™ ColorChecker Color Rendition Chart ( 735 3 RELATION OF A VOYAGE IN THE NORTH SEA, ALONG THE COASTS OF ICELAND, GREENLAND, FERRO, SHETLAND, THE ORCADES, AND NOft- WAT, MADE IN THE TEARS 1767 AND 1768, BY M. DE KERGUELEN TREMAREC, OF THE ROYAL MARINE ACADEMY IN FRANCE, LIEUTE- NANT, COMMANDER OF THE FRIGATES LA FOLLE AND L'IIIRON. DELLE. PREFACE. HIS Majefty being defirous that encouragement and protection Ihould be given to th® cod filhery on the coaft of Iceland, carried on between the months of April and Sep- tember, the Due de Praflin, minifter and fecretary of date for naval affairs, difpatched the frigate La Folle to a ftation off Iceland, to preferve good order among the French filhermen, to protect them, and to furnifh them with any fuccours they might require. Towards the end of January 1767 I received an order at Breft from the Due de Praflin, to repair to court upon his majefty’s fervice. I fet off immediately, arrived at Verfailles, and prefented myfelf to the minifter, who informed me that he had appointed me to the command of the frigate La Folle, of twenty-fix guns, and two hundred men, for the objed: I have before deferibed. Although I muft neceffarily on this cruize be fubjeCt to much fatigue and inconvenience, the novelty of it, and the inclination which from my moll tender infancy I had always felt for cruizing, occafioned me an indefcribable fatisfaCtion. M. Rodier, firft clerk in the navy-office, communicated to me fundry do- cuments and regulations relative to the filhery in queftion. On the fame fubjeCt I had the honour of feeing the prefident Ogier, who during his embaffy to Denmark obtained confiderable information on this branch of commerce, and had amicably fettled fome difputes which had arofe upon the occafion of it. He had the kindnefs to impart to me all the elucidation I could require : he informed me that the King of Denmark had granted to a company eftabliffied at Copenhagen the exclufive privilege of trading with Iceland ; that every foreign veffel, or even Daniffi, not belonging to the company, was liable to confifcation if found upon the coafts of Iceland; that the company kept cruizers to maintain its rights, and to capture any veffel infringing them; that thefe cruizers three years before, had made themfelves mailers of two Ihips from Dunkirk, which were fold at Copenhagen ; that thefe two Ihips had been filhing for cod upon the coaft of Iceland, and were furprifed in a harbour by the cruizers, with wool and other contraband articles on board, but being ambaffador at the time he had reclaimed them, and had them re- ftored with all colls and intereft. The Due de Praflin ordered me to Dunkirk, to con- fer with the gentlemen of the chamber of commerce on the means of encouraging the filhery, and fecuring fuccefs, by eftablilhing regulations and a difeipline by which the men were to abide. After taking the meafures neceffary at Dunkirk, and choofing two failors well acquainted with the coafts of Iceland, I returned to Verfailles for my laft orders from the Due de Praflin, and proceeded afterwards to Breft to equip my frigate: on the firft of April Ihe was taken into dock to be careened ; Ihe came out again on the third, and the fourth her equipment began ; in order to haften which, I divided the operation among my officers. M. Duchaftel, who was my fecond lieutenant, had the care of the ftowage, and general infpe&ion with M. de la Martilliere, midlhipman; lieutenant Le Chevalier Ferron, had the infpedlion of provifions, with Meffrs. Pehaa and Le Rouge, midlhipmen ; M. I.erondel and Le Chevalier Menyeau, midffiipmen, looked to the guns and ammunition; and Meffrs. Dorvault and Menyeau, fenior, to the fails

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