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this chart and tlie " draught." What were taken to be two 

 islands off the point of land first seen are marked on the 

 chart as one much larger than the other; on the "draught" 

 they are much more equal in size. The mountain tops taken 

 to be islands and called by Tasman Wit's Islands, are four 

 in number on the chart, and three on the '' draught." 

 Sweer's Islands and Maatsuyker's Islands are differently 

 placed in the relative position of each island to the others 

 and to the mainland ; and the same may be said with regard 

 to the outlying Pedro Blanca and Eddystone. The shapes 

 of Tasman's Island and of all the islands on the east side of 

 Tasmania are different in the two maps. Cape Frederick 

 Hendrick, which is shown pretty correctly on the chart, is 

 represented as an island on the " draught." Neither Green 

 Island in Marion's Bay, nor He des Phoques, north of Maria 

 Island, are shown on the chart, but are both marked on the 

 " draught." The whole of the land shown on the draught 

 is placed about 45 minutes of longitude more to the eastward 

 than on the chart, but the latitudes are about the same. The 

 trend of the east coast is more directly northward in the 

 " draught " than on the chart. Speaking generally, and 

 with our exacter knowledge of the real position of the land, 

 it may be said that the chart is more correct than the 

 " draught." 



Taking all the differences into consideration, it must be 

 evident that the " draught" was not made, nor copied from 

 one made, by the maker of the chart. By whom, then, was 

 it made ? It is of course impossible to answer with cer- 

 tainty : but I think the nature of the differences point to the 

 conclusion that it was made on board the fly-boat Zeehaan, 

 the consort of the commander, Tasman's, ship HeemsMrk. 

 We know from Tasman's journal that a chart or charts were 

 being prepared and kept on the Zeehaan as well as on the 

 Heemskirk, for they aie mentioned in the Minute of Instruc- 

 tions sent to the officers of the Zeehaan on the 26th of 

 Novepaber, 1642, after the Council meeting on board the 

 Heemskirk. Two years ago I gave to the Royal Society of 

 Tasmania copies of two charts made respectively on board 

 the French ships Le Mascarin and the Marquis de Castries, 

 in 1772, under circumstances similar to those of the Heems- 

 kirk and Zeehaan 130 years before, and the two French 

 charts relatively s!io\v differences similar to those of these 

 two Dutch charts. 



As Tasman returned to B^tavia in the middle of June, 



