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later Flinders sailed along this coast. After sailing one 

 hundred and seventy-five leagues, he says, he came to 

 a hill ; a hill that " did not much exceed the height of 

 the ship's masthead." Following the tracks of the Duyfhen, 

 and noting its places of call, the two Dutch ships sailed 

 Southward, past Cape Keerweer, as far as 17 8'. Here 



PART OF DE LEEUW'S MAP, 1623 . 

 (From Coote, Remarkable Maps. De Leeuw was Pilot in Carstenz's voyage.) 



at a river or inlet " there was no fresh water here " 

 which they called the Staten River, 1 they decided to turn 

 again. " We might get into a vast bay ; it is evident 

 that North winds prevail ; we should then fall on a lee- 

 shore." In default of stone, they caused a wooden tablet 

 to be nailed to a tree, recording the arrival on the 24th 



1 Carstenz's Staten River, says Mr. A. W. Jose, was not the Staten 

 River which Flinders put upon the modern map, but " a southern 

 mouth of the Gilbert delta." Flinders, using Tasman's map, did his 

 best to identify the old Dutch names. " But the Pera's chart, which 

 can be corrected very exactly, and seems to have been rarely more 

 than ten minutes wrong in its latitude, shows most of the identifications 

 to be mistaken." Cf. Flinders' statement, p. 482. 



