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Sunday 4th Mar/60
Kept my room most of the day reading "Capt Dillon's Narration of the Discovery of the fate of La Perouse" - a work which I found in a [[underlined]] Rare [[/underlined]] Book Store yesterday & of course purchased it.  I had enquired of several scientific men - men of entensive Historical reading - Librarians of the "American Geographical & Statistical ^[[Society]] & of the "Historical Society of N.Y." but none were able to tell me that the fate of Perouse had or had not ^[[ever]] been ascertained.  By this opportune Work I learn that searches were made for La Perouse Expedition [[underlined]] 42 years after it had left France [[/underlined]] ^[[(in 1785)]] on a Voyage of Discovery & that relics in [[strikethrough]] numerous [[/strikethrough]] ^[[large]] numbers were found on the Island of Manicolo - [[?]] [[bottom of page not scanned properly]]
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[[strikethrough]] the fact [[/strikethrough]] that the two vessels of wh. said expedition consisted were wrecked on its shores upon which a few of the ship's companies had escaped - & that [[underlined]] the last remnant of this party had died only three years before the sad fate of that Expedition was ascertained! [[/underlined]]  If some of the La Perouse companions could live for near 1/2 Century, on the Isle of Manicolo, whose atmosphere is charged with pestilence, [[underlined]] May I not continue to hope that some of the 105 men of Sir John Franklin, that were living on the 25th day of Apr 1848, (twelve years ago) still survive?
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Monday Feb 5/60
To-day called on Mr. Grinnell at his office in Wall Street - was invited to dine with him - wh. I did - I was there introduced to an elderly gentleman who, in [[strikethrough]] his [[/strikethrough]] conversation said that in 1837 He dined (in this City) where was present the present Emperor of France, who declared [[underlined]] emphatically & without reservation [[/underlined]] that ^[[he]] would yet be on the throne of his country!"
I returned to my Hotel 11 1/2 o'clock ^[[Night]] & was greatly rejoiced to find that Capt. Quayle had arrived - I have been awaiting his arrival for several days.