282 DISCOVERY OF VAN BIUMEN's LAND. 



only Cook's chart, since he places Adventure B&)% Tas- 

 man's Head, and Maria's lies as they are laid down by 

 Cook. Capt. Hayes re-named all the other localities in 

 Storm Bay, and it is to him that we pwe the name of the 

 River Derwent. The Baie da Nord of D'Entrecasteaux 

 he called Hensbsw's Bay. 



In December, 1798, Flinders and Bass, in their first 

 circumnavigation of the Island in the Norfolk, sailed up 

 Storm Bay and explored and surveyed the Baie du Nord 

 of D'Entrecasteaux. Flinders says that he was at the 

 time quite ignorant that this bay had ever been entered 

 before, and, misled by the errors of Furneaux and Cook, 

 he laid it down on his first sketch chart* as Frederick 

 Henry Bay. 



In January, 1802, the French discovery expedition 

 under Admiral Baudin, in the ships Oeographe and 

 Naturuliste, arrived in D'Entrecasteaux Channel. 

 During a stay of some weeks they completed, the 

 surveys of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux, and explored and 

 surveyed the Baie du Nord. They then sailed for the 

 east coast and anchored their ships in the passage be- 

 tween Maria Island and the mainland. From this point 

 Freyciaet, Baudin's lieutenant, made the first thorough 

 examination of Tasman's Frederik Hendrik Bay. He 

 explored it as far as East Bay Neck, and was thus 

 enabled to correct the mistakes of former navigators. 

 He found that D'Entrecasteaux had been mistaken in 

 supposing that there was a channel between Frederick 

 Henry Bay and the Baie du Nord, and that the supposed 

 He d'Abel Tasman was a double peninsula, to which he 

 gave the names of Forrestier's and Tasman's Peninsula 

 (1'resqu'ile d'Abel Tasman). He also proved that 

 Flinders! had been in error in applying the name 

 Frederick Henry to the Baie du Nord. The charts of 

 Baudin's expedition, constructed by Faure, were the first 

 to show this coast accurately : in them for the first time 

 the outer port was laid down as Baie Marion, and the 

 inner one as Baie Frederick Hendrick. 



Many years later, after his liberation from his long 

 Mauritius captivity, Flinders came to write bis "Voyage 

 to Terra Australia." He had- then had the opportunity 

 of comparing his own surveys of fifteen years before with 

 the French charts, and correcting bis errors. In his 

 atlas, therefore, the Baie du Nord is correctly named 



* Sec Mr. Mault's paper and fac simile, of chart, cited above. 



t Peron's narrative of Baudin's voyage wag published In 1807. The author 

 had, therefore, the opportunity of comparing Flinders' charts which were 

 seized at the Mauritius in 1803, 



