Those vessels returned towards the north, where they were to make another voyage.
During the stay of M.De la Peyrouse in Botany Bay, Father Le Receveur, who had come out in the Astrolabe as a naturalist, died.

His death was occasioned by wounds which he received in the unfortunate rencounter at the Navigator's Islands.

A slight monument was erected to his memory, with the following inscription.
Hic jacet LE RECEVEUR, E.F.

F.Minimis Galliae Sacerdos, Physicus in circumnavigatione Mundi, Duce DE LA PEYROUSE, Ob.

17 Feb.