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into it. We had nearly got into the Bay, when there arose 



so strong a gale that we were obliged to take in sail, and Storm Bay. 



to run out to sea again under reduced sail, seeing that it 



was impossible to come to anchor in such a storm." The 



Bay is named on Tasman's Chart "Storm Bay." 1 Furneaux 



anchored in it in 1773, and called it " Adventure Bay." 



Tasman's name of " Storm Bay " has been transferred 



to the wider opening, at the entrance to which lies his 



Storm Bay. The gale which prevented him from anchoring 



where Furneaux anchored one hundred and thirty years 



later prevented him also from sailing the modern Storm 



Bay, and the River Derwent, to the site of Hobart. 



Driven off from the shore by wind and current so far 

 that they " could barely see the land," they rounded 

 " Tasman's eyland " (" the Pillar " in modern maps), 

 and " De Suyd Cap " (the modern Tasman peninsula), 

 and sailed Northward up the East coast. On the afternoon 

 of the 1st of December, it was resolved " to touch at the 

 land both to get better acquainted with its condition, 

 and to procure refreshment for our own behoof ; and, about 

 one hour after sunset, we dropped anchor in a good harbour, The landing 

 for all which it behooves us to thank God Almighty with P lace - 

 grateful hearts." " The position of the anchorage as 

 shown in Tasman's Chart," explains Mr. Walker, 2 " is 

 North-west of the rocks now called Green Island, just 

 North of the basaltic cliffs of Cape Frederick Henry." 3 

 The scenery, Mr. Walker tells us, is " unaltered after two 

 and a half centuries." The coast is still " wild and rugged 

 and scarcely known except to the hardy fisherman. . . . 

 The country inland is poor, almost without water, covered 

 with thin gum forest, scrub, and meagre grass. It is only 

 the shore that is interesting. The rocky headlands, cliffs, 

 and islands, against which the ocean dashes are rent 

 and scarred by sudden fissures and chasms, into which 

 the waves rush roaring and tumbling. Between the 



1 See map, p. 273. 2 P. 131. 



3 In the Admiralty chart this point is named C. Frederick Hendrik. 

 See J. Moore-Robinson's Record of Tasmanian Nomenclature, and 

 CHve L. Lord's The Early Explorers of Tasmania. 



