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discussing his later voyage in 1792, when he again called 

 at Adventure Bay when on the way to make his second 

 attempt to transplant the bread fruit trees to the West 

 Indies. 



The manuscript of log and narrative of Bligh's second 

 voyage is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney, and T am in- 

 . ! to Mr. H. Wright, the librarian, who kindly ar- 

 ranged for mo to obtain copi - of Bligh's writings. During 

 my last visit to Sydn y 1 was also enabled to examine 

 the sketch 9, etc., relating to the visits to Ad- 

 venture Bay. From Bligh's account we learn 

 that he arrived off the South W( -i C< ast at sunrise on tin 

 8th of February, 1792. and twenty-four hours later anchor- 

 Mi in Adventure Bay. As Boon as the shipe were mi 

 made in order to obtain fresh suppli 

 wood and water. Owing to adv ra w ather conditions. 

 Foils to obtain lish by means of the seine wer i a 

 successful, but many fine rock-cod were secured by line 

 fishing, and good sport obtained catching the bream in 

 the lake near the beach. Most of the time of the crew 

 was occupied in getting the wood and water. Bligh was 

 nted from carrying out several excursions on ac- 

 count of the bad weatln P, and although if was February 

 the fact is mentioned thai snow lay on the "high Table- 

 "land" (i.e., Mt. Wellington). 



One of the proposed expeditions, if carried out, might 

 I had far-reaching results, for Bligh, under the im 



ion that the. water of the Channel (which he could 

 see from Adventure Bay) was the Frederick Henry Bay 

 of Tasman, was anxious to examine the entrance to the 

 Bay. He naturally considered this to be further to the 

 north— beyond the Oape Frederick Henry (of Furneaux). 

 Bligh proposed to take the smaller vessel of the two (The 

 Assistant) and "go round into the Bay of Frederick H< i 

 Had not bad weather prevented this design being carried 

 out, Bligh would undoubtedly have carried his explora- 

 tions to the extent of circumnavigating Bruny Island, and 

 therefore have been the discoverer of the Channel, which. 

 owing in the first place to an accident, the French Admiral 

 D'Entrecasteaux was to discover a few months later. By 

 discovering is meant the discovery of the fact that it was 

 a channel and not a bay already named. Bligh and other 

 previous visitors to Adventure Bay had seen the central 

 portion of the Channel before tin French investigated it. 

 Bligh's narrative states — "Lieut. Bond and others of our 

 "gentlemen walked along the west shore as far as the 

 'South part of Frederick Henrv Bay. From the view he 

 "had of it he gave me the following account. 



"The Bay of Frederick Henry is separated on the South 



