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Bktjnt Denteecasteaux. April 21 — May 28, 1792, and Jan. 

 18— Feb. 27, 1793. 

 Eossel (N. de). Voyage de M. Bentvecasteaux 

 envoys a la recherche de la Feroiise. 2 vol. 

 4° et atlas fol. Paris. 1808. 



John Hates. 1794. 



On the authority of Low and other writers. 



Matthew Flinders (and George Bass). Oct. 18, 1798 — 

 Jan. 8, 1799. 

 Flinders (Matthew). A voyage to Terra Australis 

 in the Investigator, the Por])oise, and the Cumher- 

 land. 2 vols. 4° and atlas fol. Lond. 1814. 



Nicolas Batjdin. Several visits between January and 

 June 1802. 

 Peron (Francois). Voyage de decouvertes aux 

 terres australes. Historique. Continue jyar M. L. 

 Freycinet. 2 vol. 4° et 2 atlas. Paris. 1807-16. 

 Frejcinet (Louis). Le meme. Navigation et 

 Geograjjliie, 4'' et atlas fol. Paris. 1815. 



William Eaven. Prior to June 1802. 



" Mr. Eaven on his return to England in the 

 Buffalo, putting into Adventure Bay, cut off 

 some undoubted wool from the head of a native 

 that he fell in with there." (Collins' Account of 

 the English Colony in Netv South Wales, ii. p. 

 188. note.) * 



The tender Sup]jly of Phillip's ' first fleet ' sighted Van 

 Diemen's Land about half -past ten on Brd January, 

 1788. (The voyage of Governor PMllij) to Botany Bay. 

 App. p. X.) Flinders embarked in the schooner Francis 

 when she went to bring off the cargo of the Sydney Cove 

 (wrecked between Preservation and Eum Islands), in order 

 to make such discoveries as circumstances might admit of, 

 and sighted the North-east Coast on Feb. 25, 1798. 

 (Terra Australis. i.pp. cxxxvi-cxxxvii.) 



The journal of Tasman was first published m/itZZ by the firm 

 ofVanKeulen,Amsterdam,inl860,undertheeditorshipof Jacob 

 Swaart, who discovered a MS. of it in the collection belonging 

 to that firm. There is no copy of this work in any of the 

 public libraries of the colony ; the library of this Society 



* According to Collins, H.M. S. i>w/a?o arrived from England on May 3, 

 1799. (ii. p. 208.) Kaven, who had been in command of this ship, left for 

 England as a passenger by the whaler Britannia on Dec. 2 of the same year. 

 (p. 273.) The Buffalo, having meanwhile made a trip to the Cape of Good 

 Hope, left for England on Oct. 21, 1800, (p. 306.) and arrived there May 24, 

 1801, (p. 306. note.) Collins' Dedication is signed June 26, 1802. It may be 

 presumed that the author of the note quoted wrote Buffalo ior Britannia. 



