378 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 



Phillip p. King, who so carefully surveyed the western shores 

 of Australia in the early days of settlement, being unable to 

 locate the island after many attempts, gave the name to the 

 westernmost point of Australia, where it is now placed in memory 

 of the past. It is most likely that the island that bore the original 

 name has subsided. 



Shoal Bay is the next name we come to. It is the Terra 

 Anegada, or Submerged Land, of the old Portuguese charts. Shoal 

 Bay occurs on this shallowest and apparently most submerged 

 portion of the north-west coast — a coast so shallow that, owing to 

 the difficulties of approach, portions of it have not yet been 

 surveyed. The term submerged land is, therefore, a most 

 appropriate one, as the name, Shoal Bay, given by Phillip P. King, 

 in the same locality bears testimony. The inundated appearance 

 noticed by many is due greatly to the extraordinary rise and fall 

 of the tides along this part of the coast. P. P. King, when at 

 anchor in Camden Bay, close by in 1821, says — " At the anchorage 

 the flood did not seem to run at a greater rate than 1| miles an 

 hour, but it ebbed two miles, and fell 37 feet, which is the greatest 

 rise and fall we had yet found. It is probable that from the 

 intricate nature of the coast that these high tides are common 

 to all the neighbourhood." 



Now further to the north we come to the Gold Coast of old 

 Portuguese charts. The correctness of this term was eventually 

 understood when the rush to the Kimberley gold field broke out. 

 In this part of Australia P. P. King found that the natives spoke 

 a peculiar language, which he could not make out, but which 

 he put on record in his book, and which I found to be Portuguese. 



When the Dutch made what they thought — or pretended to 

 think — were first discoveries in the neighbourhood of what is now 

 Port Darwin, they called the broad sound that occurs there Van 

 Diemen's Bay, but, as often happened wdth them, they left a 

 portion of the appellation in Portuguese — baya. 



In the Gulf of Carpentaria occurs a Portuguese nautical 

 phrase, " Anda ne barcha " — no boats go here th? discovery of 

 which phrase enabled me to establish the Portuguese origin of the 

 Dauphin chart. (I must mention here for those who are not 

 acquainted with these old French charts of Portuguese and Spanish 

 origin that the one that came to be called the " Dauphin Chart " 

 — the oldest of the set of 7 — was so called by R. H. Major, because 

 it was executed in the time of Francis I. of France for his son, the 

 Dauphin, afterwards Henri II. The chart in course of time came 

 into the possession of Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, after whose 

 death it was stolen by one of his servants. Subsequently it was 

 purchas'-d by Joseph Banks, who, after some years, presented it 

 to the British Museum in 1790. Copies of these old and rare 

 documents were made at a cost of £300 for the Sydney and other 

 Free Libraries.) 



