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An interesting story in connection with the publi cation of Hearne's narrative is told in the introduction to the Voyage of La Perouse. Hearne was governor of Prince of Wales F ort in 1782, when it was captured by La Perouse. The F rench admiral carried his prisoner off to F rance, but treated him on board rather as a liter ary friend than as a prisoner of war. Among the spoils of the fort was. Hearne's manuscript, and this La Perouse, after reading it with deep interest, returned to the explorer upon the express stipulation that it must be published immediately on his arrival in England. The book actually appeared in 1795, three years after Hearne's death, as a large quarto volume. An octavo edition was published in Dublin, in 1796. A reprint, with introduction and notes by J. B. Tyrrell, the explorer of the Barren Lands, will be issued in 1911 by the Champlain Society.
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