BY (LIVE E. LORD. 115 



uat Tasman's ships the Heemskerck and Zeehan, work- 

 ing round from the West Coast, passed several rocky is- 

 lets, one of which Tasman compared to the shape of a 

 lion. ( 2 ) Another was named Pedra Branca, owing to its 

 likeness to a similar rock of that name off the coast of 

 China, while a third was r< t rred to as being like a high 

 rugged tower. < 3 ' 



Willi the aid of a westerly breeze the Dutch ships 

 continued their course along the shore, the islands at the 

 south-east corner of Bruny Island were noticed, and to 

 these the name Boreel Islands was given. < 4 ) Towards 

 evening the -hips were making for a bay I 5 ) intending to 

 come to anchor when a north-w aterly gale arose and 

 blew the vessels to si a again, ,c > and when they were 

 able to again close with the land, several days later, they 

 anchored on the East Coast. 



cl Tasman been able to conn to anchor in Adven- 

 tnzre Bay his stay in Tasmania might bav< bi en of a 

 longer duration, and the discovery that Bruny wa an 

 island mad.- then instead of a century and a half later. 

 The Dutch explorations v. | , however, with the 



chief object of extending the trade of the Dutch East 

 India Company, and not for the mere spirit of adven- 

 ture. The rugged coasts of this hitherto unknown South 

 land, whit h Tasman named Van Diemen's Land, after 

 the Governor of Batavia, did no! offer any promise of 

 lilling the coffers of tin company, and we hear of no 

 further Dutch expeditions to 'Ids locality. 



More than a hundred years later the Frenchman, 

 Marion du Fresne, in command of the Mascarin and the 

 Mar quit <h Castriet Bighted Tasmania. W Following on 

 Tasman'-. charts he coasted along the shore and anchored 

 on the East Coast, ( 9 > a f< w miles to the north of where 

 tb • Dutch navigator had furled his sails. Marion's charts 

 merely represent the impressions of the coast obtained 

 by the second European explorer to visit Tasmania, coast- 

 ing along several miles off shore. As far as Bruny's 



(2) Identified by Furneaux in 1773, and named the Mewstone 



(3) Cook, in 1777, named this the Eddystone, owing to its resem- 

 a to the English lighthouse of that name. 



1 I •• nix mistook Ta a ill's localities and renamed the Boreel Is- 

 lands the Friars. The lattor designation is now the one generally 

 used. (See note on nomenclature of Tasman's Head, page 186.) 



(5) Evidently the south end of Adventure Bay, where Furneaux 

 anchored in 177:?. 



ilence the name Storm Bay for the large bay at the estuary of 

 the Derwent. 



(7) Tasman, Abel Janszoon— Journal of a Voyage in 1642 Amster- 



. 1898. 



(8) Marion sighted V.D L. on the 3rd of March, 1772. 



(9) At Marion Bay. 



