6 NOTES ON CAI'TAIN BLIGH S VISITS TO TASMANIA, 



plorinpT ships, commanded by Admiral Baiulin, wore at Cou- 

 pang, Riedle, the naturalist of the expedition, died here on 

 the 21st of October, 1801, The French buried him in Nel- 

 son's grave, and raised a monument in memory of both 

 naturalists. 



Bligh managed to purchase the schooner Resource, and 

 reached Batavia on the 1st of October, and, after further 

 trials, eventually returned to England on the 14th of March, 

 1790. Here he was welcomed as a hero, raised in rank, and 

 given the command of another expedition to the South Seas. 



THE BOUNTY AT ADVENTURE BAY, 1788. 



On the nineteenth of August the Mewstone was sighted, 

 the wind being strong nor'-west. Several fires were noticed 

 inland from South Cape, telling of the presence of natives. 

 The following day was spent in endeavouring to work into 

 Adventure Bay, but variable winds prevented this objective 

 being attained. 



At 5 o'clock on the morning of the twenty-first the ship 

 anchored off Adventure Bay. At sunrise the anchor was 

 again weighed, and by noon the ship was worked into the 

 bay and moored. The bearings of the Bouvty's moorings 

 being: "Penguin Island bearing N. 57deg. * E., about two 

 "miles distant; Cape Frederick Henry N. 23deg. E., and the 

 "mouth of the Lagoon S. IGdog. E." 



The ship being safely moored, an inspection was made, 

 in order to ascertain the best place to obtain wood and water 

 from. The site selected was at the west end of the beach, 

 near where the present jetty stands, as the surf was found 

 to be less at this place than elsewhere. Present-day charts 

 refer to this locality as Quiet Corner, owing to the sheltering 

 effect of the high stone cliff which projects into the bay at this 

 point. The stone forming this headland is remarkably rect- 

 angular in certain positions, which accounts for Bligh naming 

 this point "Hewn Stone Head" on his charts of 1792. 



The water was obtained from a gully about sixty yards 

 from the beach. Bligh points out that the water was good, 

 but was merely "a collection from the rains, the place is 

 "always dry in the summer months; for we found no water 

 "in it when I was here with Captain Cook in January, 1777." 

 Nevertheles.s, Bligh saw fit in 1792 to describe the small creek 

 which meanders to the beach at this locality by the name of 

 the "Bounty Rivulet." Resolution River, where Captain Cook 



