ABSTRACT
His first command was in 1786, when he carried out surveys off Greece in the Sardine, 22. In 1792, he undertook a voyage to discover what had happened to LAPÉROUSE (the French equivalent of the British expeditions to find FRANKLIN some sixty years later). In following Laperouse’s tracks, he landed in Brazil, where he was arrested on suspicion of spying, but was able to make his way to the USA, where he tried vainly to discover the Northwest Passage.
