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correct in placing it in 11. But why did he not adopt Carstens- 

 zoon's name of " Van Spult " ? 



The next position noted by Tasman is the " STAETEN REVIER," 

 in 1 1 50' (Swart) or 1 1 54' (Heeres). (SEE MAP B.) Close to the 

 coast and in either of these latitudes, Tasman would be looking into 

 the mouth of PORT MUSGRAVE, the estuary common to the Batavia, 

 Ducie and Dalhunty Rivers of modern maps. He had just passed 

 (apparently without observing it) the river to which Carstenszoon 

 gave the name of CARPENTIER (called the SKARDON RIVER in modern 

 maps), and still believed that river to be a long way south ; and 

 this shows how inaccurate was the chart on which he had to rely 

 for information as to his predecessor's discoveries. Having missed 

 the real Carpentier and found another " revier " not very far to 

 the south, he would almost certainly have called the latter the 

 Batavia had he been in possession of either de Leeuw's chart 

 (date uncertain, say 1623-30) or Kepler and Eekerbrecht's chart 

 (1630), as de Leeuw had altered Carstenszoon's name of Carpentier 

 to Batavia and Kepler and Eekerbrecht had copied from him. 

 TASTMAN DID NOT, however, CALL THE INLET THE BATAVIA, but, 

 believing it to be new, called it the Staeten (States) Revier. Why 

 he should have called it by that name is a mystery, seeing that (as 

 proved by his subsequent erroneous identification of another 

 Staeten Revier in 16 47') Carstenszoon's Staten Revier was shown 

 (although, incorrectly, to the north of lat. 17) in the " specially 

 prepared " map which he carried. 



Up to the date when Tasman passed Port Musgrave, the singular 

 state of affairs was that NO inlet had yet been named the Batavia, 

 although the name even then stood on at least two charts. As a 

 matter of fact, the name was first applied in 1756 to the principal 

 river debouching into Port Musgrave by VAN ASSCHENS, the mate 

 in command of the " Buijs," who, no doubt, was in possession of 

 Kepler and Eekerbrecht's chart, if not of de Leeuw's. Thus 

 Tasman was the first to notice the mouth of the Port Musgrave 

 Estuary, but he gave it a name (Staeten) which cannot be accepted, 

 and Van Asschens was the first to apply the name Batavia to the 

 principal river discharging into the estuary. 



Tasman's third position is in 12 18' (Swart) or 12 13' (Heeres), 

 and is named the PRINCE REVIER, probably in honour of Prince 

 Frederik Henry, then Stadtholder of Holland. The only opening 

 between 12 13' and 12 18' is the mouth (12 i^'-iz 15') of the 

 PENNEFATHER RIVER, which has figured on maps for several decades 

 as the " COEN " River, from Flinders' erroneous identification 

 with the " revier " to which Carstenszoon gave that name. Tasman 

 had named the inlet in question the " PRINCE " more than two 

 centuries before it was named the Pennefather. 



Tasman's " REVIER MIT BOSCH " (Wooded Inlet) is placed in 

 I2 33' by Swart and in 12 30' by Heeres. On modern charts, 



