116 EARLY HISTORY OF BRUNY ISLAND, 



history is concerned, Marion's visit scarcely needs to 

 be considered. ( 10 ) 



Captain Cook's second voyage to the South Seas 

 commenced in April, 1772, his ships being the Resolution 

 and the Adventure, Captain Tobias Furneaux being in 

 command of the latter vessel. After leaving the' Cape 

 of Good Hope the vessels became separated during a thick 

 fog on the 7th of February, 1773. Cook sailed direct to 

 New Zealand, but Furneaux touched at Tasmania, or as 

 it was then known, the South Coast of New Holland, before 

 rejoining his chief. Furneaux sighted the land near the 

 South West Cape on the 9th of March, 1773, 

 and hauling in for the coast he passed and 

 named the Mewstone Rock, off the entrance to the 

 Channel. On the morning of the 10th, a boat was sent 

 ashore, and on its return the crew reported that they 

 had seen "several places where the Indians had been." 

 The captain of the Adventure remarked .upon the bold- 

 ness of the shore, and referred to the fact that it seem- 

 ed to afford several large bays or anchoring places. It 

 remained for D'Entrecasteaux, however (as the result of 

 an accident), to show that one of these bays was, in 

 reality, a magnificent channel. Furneaux evidently notic- 

 ed the entrance and took this, together with Cloudy Bay 

 (off the South Coast of Bruny), to be the Storm Bay 

 of Tasman. He records passing "several small islands 

 "and black rocks" which ho named "the Fryars." These 

 were actually the Bored Islands of Tasman, but Furneaux 

 imagined himself to the East of Tasman's Islands. — a fact 

 which has led to' much confusion. (See remarks on nomen- 

 clature of Tasman's Head, page 135.) 



At seven in the evening of the 10th of March, being 

 abreast of a fine bay, and having little wind, the vessel 

 camo to anchor in twenty-four fathoms, sandy bottom. 

 Furneaux remarks — "We first took this bay to be that 

 "which Tasman called Frederick Henry; but afterwards 

 "found that his is laid down five leagues to the north - 

 "ward of this." As a matter of fact Tasman's anchorage 

 was about fifty miles to the North-East. 



The whole of the next day was spent in selecting a 

 watering place and moving the ship further into the bay. 

 Furneaux mistook the present Tasman Peninsula for the 

 Maria Island of Tasman, and records bearings to it. Dur- 

 ing the five days that the vessel was in the bay several 

 expeditions were made on shore, and the explorers noticed 

 that the trees were mostly burnt near the ground, this 

 being done by the natives, who were in the habit of set- 



(10) Crozet's Voyage to Tasmania, New Zealand, etc., 1771-72. Trans, 

 by Ling Both. London, 1891. 



