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The next day (Dee. 3) the boats went to the south- 

 east corner of the bay in which the ships were anchored, 

 in order to get fresh water, but, though they found a 

 lagoon, the shore was so low that the waves had broken 

 through, and the water was too brackish for use. The 

 wind blew strongly from the east and south-east, and in 

 the afternoon, when they again tried to effect a landing 

 with the boats, the sea ran so high that one boat was 

 obliged to return to the ship, the other larger boat, 

 under the command of Tasman himself, made for a little 

 bay to the W.S.W. of the ships, but the sea was too 

 rough to allow of landing. The carpenter, Peter 

 Jacobsen, volunteered to swim ashore with a pole on 

 which was the Prince's flag. He planted the Hag-pole 

 in the ground on the shore of the bay, and thus Tasman 

 took possession of our island for the Dutch. 



Next morning at daybreak (Dec. 4), the storm having 

 subsided, and the wind blowing off shore, they weighed 

 anchor and stood to the northward, passing Maria Island 

 and Schouten Island, so named by Tasman after his 

 fellow-townsman of the good port of Hoorn. 



On the following morning (Dec. 5) he took his 

 departure from a high round mountain (St. Patrick's 

 Head) and stood away to the eastward to make fresh 

 discoveries. 



Of the localities associated with the discovery of this 

 island, the one round which the chief interest centres is 

 Frederick Henry Bay and its neighbourhood. The name 

 has been dislocated from its rightful position on the map, 

 and has been transferred to another part of the coast, where 

 it is now fixed by long usage. Tasman never saw what 

 is now popularly known as Frederick Henry Bay. The 

 bay to which he gave the name of the Stadtholder of 

 Holland was in the immediate vicinity of his anchorage 

 on the north-east coast of Forestier's Peninsula, Its 

 exact locality the records of the voyage leave a little 

 doubtful. The journal contains no names of places, but 

 the account of the planting of the flag would lead to the 

 inference that he gave the Prince's* name to the bay in 

 which his ships lay at anchor, on the shore of which the 

 Prince's flag was set up, and which is now known as 

 Marion Bay. The charts, however, lead rather to the 

 conclusion that it is the inner port or arm of the sea (now 

 Blackmail's Bay) which is the true Bay of Frederik 

 Hendrik. The copy of the map in Burney leaves the 



Prinri' !■ ; oderik I Ic.iidrik •■■? Orange v a,-; StadUiohlur of Holland ivnn 1626 

 to 1647. He was the grandfather ot William of Orange, afterwards William 

 1X1. of England. 



