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entrance of D'Entrecasteaux Channel for Tasman's Storm 

 Bay. The south point of Bruny he mistook for Tas- 

 man's [gland (the Pillar), and called it Tasman's Head. 

 Rounding' Bruny Island he stood north, under the im- 

 pression that he was sailing along the east coast of Van 

 Diemen's Land, and in the evening came to an anchor 

 in a bay of which he says — " We at first, took this bay 

 to be that which Tasman called Frederick Henry Bay, 

 but afterwards found that his is laid down five leagues to 

 the northward of this." Furneaux named his anchorage 

 Adventure Bay, the point to the north he called Cape 

 Frederick Henry — believing that Tasman's Frederick 

 Henry Bay lay to the north of this cape — and the 

 opposite shore of Tasman's ^Peninsula he laid down on 

 his chart as Maria's Isles. After five days' stay in 

 Adventure Bay, he sailed out and rounded the Pillar, 

 under the impression that he was rounding the south 

 point of Maria Island. Thence he proceeded north as 

 far as the Furneaux Group, and then bore away for New 

 Zealand to rejoin Cook. 



Cook, on his third voyage, cast anchor in Adventure 

 Bay on January 24, 1777, without detecting Furneaux's 

 mistake or correcting his charts. 



In 1789, Captain J. H. Cox, in the brig Mercury, 

 anchored in the strait between Maria Island and the 

 mainland, but, misled by the charts of Furneaux and 

 Cook, never suspected that he was within a few miles of 

 Tasman's Frederick Henry Bay. 



In April, 1792, Admiral D'Entrecasteaux, with the 

 ships Recherche and JSsperance, sighted the Mewstone 

 and bore up for the mainland, intending to make Cook's 

 anchorage in Adventure Bay. Through an error of his 

 pilot, instead of rounding Bruny Island, he stood to the 

 west, of it, and found that he was not in Adventure Bay, 

 but in the entrance of the Channel, which he (like Cook) 

 believed to be the Storm Bay of Tasman. D'Entrecas- 

 teaux explored the channel which bears his name, ascended 

 our river, which he named Riviere du Nord, and explored 

 the wide bay to the north-east, which he named Baie du 

 Nord. This bay he thought, communieated with Tas- 

 man's Frederick Henry Bay on the east, coast, and under 

 this impression the land which Cook had erroneously laid 

 down as Maria Island he named He d'Abel Tasman. 



In 1794, Capt. John Hayes, in the ships Duke of 

 Clarence and Duchess, visited Storm Bay — although the 

 name docs not appear on his charts. 5 He evidently had 



* See Mr. A. Maul t's paper, with far. aimitf, of Hay's chart, in the Society's 

 Papers and Proceedings for 1880. 



