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the mouth of PINE or NOMENADE CREEK is in 12 30', but to reach 

 it Tasman must have doubled sharply round DUYFKEN POINT, and 

 it is very odd indeed that his 1644 chart gives no indication of this 

 very prominent cape. The omission may be attributable to a desire 

 to avoid overcrowding the chart with details. 



If Tasman really sailed to the mouth of Pine Creek, he was then 

 well inside of ALBATROSS BAY, and his next inlet, which he calls 

 the " REVIER CARPENTIER," is placed in a bay in 12 48'. In 

 12 40', the EMBLEY RIVER discharges into Albatross Bay. Tasman's 

 observation may be correct, but why should he have given a new 

 name (Staeten Revier) to Carstenszoon's Carpentier Inlet ? And 

 why should he have identified as Carstenszoon's Carpentier an 

 inlet 55 minutes to the south of it ? It is easier to believe that 

 he was supplied with a very imperfect chart of Carstenszoon's 

 voyage than that he was careless in his identifications. I conclude 

 that he did not find Carstenszoon's diary and chart at Banda, as 

 the Governor and Council at Batavia expected he would, and that 

 the " special chart " supplied to him was imperfect and misleading. 



Tasman next writes " VLIEGE BAIJ " (Fly Bay) on the coast in 

 13 12' S. Towards the latter end of the nineteenth century, 

 this bay was labelled by the Hon. John Douglas (I am afraid un- 

 alterably) " ALBATROSS BAY." It extends from Duyfken Point 

 (12 33' S.) to Pera Head (12 55' S.), and receives the important, 

 and to some extent navigable, MISSION and EMBLEY RIVERS. Here, 

 for the first time, Tasman's latitude will not square with modern 

 charting, as, even if the latitude given by him is meant to be that 

 where he left the bay behind him, he is wrong by 17 minutes 

 too much south. In any case, his name of Fly Bay has priority, 

 by more than two and a half centuries, over the de jacto name 

 Albatross Bay. The name probably records the fact that mos- 

 quitoes had forced themselves on Tasman's notice. The skipper 

 of the " JBuijs," in April, 1756, recognised VLIEGE BAIJ, although, 

 a month later, the skipper of the " Rijder " named it MOSSEL BAIJ. 

 (SEE MAP D.) 



South of Albatross Bay, an inlet in 13 30' (Swart) or 13 27' 

 (Heeres) was named the REVIER COEN by Tasman, who evidently 

 believed that he had identified the inlet (in 13 7') so named by 

 Carstenszoon. 



The " Investigator " Chart by FLINDERS (1802), corrected by the 

 Admiralty surveyors up to 1896, shows no break in the coast-line 

 in the position (13 7' S.) assigned to the Coen Revier by Carstens- 

 zoon in 1623 ; nor does the Lands Department map. In the 

 chapter devoted to Missionary Exploration it is shown that the 

 " Peru's " anchorage was in 13 j' and that a boat's crew landed 

 there, and a short walking distance to the north found a small inlet 

 remarkable only for the presence of esculent herbs, and which was 

 named the COEN. The Rev. N. Hey, of the Mapoon Mission, 



