By A. MAULT 109 



Leaving tlie Ci'ozets the ships were steered due eastward 

 until they passed the longitude of St. Paul's Island, and. then 

 were headed towards the land discovered by Tasnian. This 

 was first sighted on the 3rd March, when Crozet calculated 

 that they were in latitude 42deg. 56min. south. The 

 longitude as given in the " New Voyage " is so evidently 

 incorrect — 126deg. 20min. east of Paris — that I will not 

 here allude to it but to say that it certainly is a misprint. 



Crozet gives no account of the voyage round the south end 

 of the island, simply saying : — " The chart that I have 

 prepared of the Torres de Diemen will give an exact idea of 

 the configuration of these lands, and of the route we followed 

 till we anchored in a bay named by Abel Tasman, Frederic 

 Henry's Bay, which, according to that naviagator, is situated 

 in 43deg. lOmin. of south latitude." The chart thus referred 

 to is given in the " New Voyage " on a very small scale — the 

 whole south coast of the island being shown in a space of 

 less than two inches, and no latitude or longitude is marked. 

 Flinders, in the introduction of his " Voyage to Terra 

 Australis," says of it : — " The chart of Mons. Crozet, which 

 accompanies the voyage, appears, though on a very small 

 scale, to possess a considerable degree of exactness in the 

 form of the land. The wide opening called Storm Bay is 

 distinctly marked ; as is another bay to the westward with 

 several small islands in it, the easternmost of which are the 

 BoreeVs Eylanden of Tasman." 



A very cursory examination of this small engraved chart 

 will show that it is a reduction made from the first of the 

 charts mentioned above, and this leaves no room for doubting 

 that the manuscript chart copied at Paris is the original one 

 prepared by Crozet himself on the Mascarin and during its 

 passage along the coast. The track of the course made is 

 given, with soundings and with the position of the ship at 

 various hours every day during the passage. These details 

 enable us to correct an error into which Flinders has fallen. 

 He says, after mentioning the sighting of land on the 3rd 

 March, 1772 : — " Steering eastward round all the rocks and 

 islets lying off the south coast, he arrived on the evening of 

 the 4th in Frederik Hendrik's Bay." Flinders obtained this 

 second date by deducting the six days Marion is said to have 

 stayed in the bay from the date — the 10th March — -when he 

 quitted it for New Zealand. But the " New Voyage " is so fu.ll 

 of misprints in figures that it is not to be depended upon 

 without checking. This chart of Crozet's affords such a 

 check. From it, it is evident that after sighting land, Marion 

 in the Mascarin, steering south-east, arrived south of the 

 Mewstone about 6 o'clock in the evening of the 3rd March. 

 He probably lay to for the night, but by 5 o'clock on the 

 morning of the 4th he had drifted down to 44deg. of south 



