126 EARLY HISTORY OF BRUNY ISLAND, 



To the Channel itself Hayes apparently gave the 

 name of Seton Strait. Mrs. Lee, in describing < 42 ) Hayes' 

 charts states that "Esperance Bay, discovered by the boat 

 "sent out from the Esperance and named in honour of the 

 "French ship, is designated A. Adarnson's Harbour. The 

 "smaller indentation on its northern shore Hayes named 

 "A. H. Bogle's Bay in memory of Dr. Alexander Bogle, a 



"former messmate who served on the Drake 



"What is most extraordinary with regard to the western 

 "shore is the complete omission from the charts of the 

 "great opening which forms the mouth of the Huon 

 "River. One can only suppose that when sailing down 

 "the strait and returning up it, Hayes missed seeing any 

 "part of the opening." 



Anyone conversant with the locality would 

 naturally wonder at such a prominent open- 

 ing being missed, and a detailed examination of Hayes' 

 charts shows that he not only noticed it, but sailed into the 

 estuary of the river now known as the Huon. The har- 

 bour Hayes missed charting was Port Esperance, which 

 might be easily missed from a distance owing to the sur- 

 rounding hills, and the "A. Adarnson's Harbour" of his 

 charts is undoubtedly the mouth of the Huon. Hayes' 

 ships sailed up the river, at any rate a little to the west 

 of Huon Is 1 and, which Hayes charts as Jameson's Island. 

 He also refers to Arch Island as Bridge Bock. 



After exploring the Channel and the River Derwent 

 Hayes left Tasmania on June 9th. 



Flinders and Bass in the Norfolk (a sloop of 25 tons) 

 during the voyage in which they conclusively proved that 

 Tasmania was an island, arrived off the entrance to the 

 Channel on the evening of December 13th, 1798. Flinders 

 was mainly working on Hayes' chart of V.D.L., of which 

 he had a copv, but it must also be remembered that 

 Flinders had visited Bruny Island in 1792 when serving a9 

 a midshipman on the Providence under Bligh. ^ 3 ) 



Owing to the squally westerly weather the little vessel 

 stood off and on during the night, and in the morning it 

 was found that her position was far to leeward. Giving 

 up the idea of entering the Channel the explorers bore 

 up for the Boreel Islands (Friars of Furneaux). Of these 

 islands Flinders states that three of them produced some 

 vegetation, and that that of the largest had been recently 

 burnt off. Flinders had observed also that the vegeta- 



(42) Commodore Sir John Hayes. By Ida Lee. London, 1912. 



(43) It is interesting to note that Blijrh served under Cook, Flinders 

 under Bli^h. and later, when Flinders was in command of the InwttiqOf 

 tor, Frank. in served under him as a midshipman. Sir John Franklin 

 afterwards became Governor of Tasmania. 



