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" posterity of the inhabitants of this country. They did not shew 
" themselves ; but we suspected some to be not far from thence, 
" watching carefully our doings." 
The wind was from the northward all this day : and at sunset, it 
blew a storm. The variation at anchor was observed to be 3° east; 
the latitude was 4,3° south, and longitude 167-}' east ( from Teneriffe. ) 
Dec. 4. The wind was more moderate, and came from the west- 
ward, off the land. The anchors were then weighed, but the flukes 
of one were broken. On quitting Frederik Hendrik's Bay, the 
ships steered northward as much as possible, to look for a watering 
place. At noon, the course had been N. E. 32 miles ; the latitude 
was 4.2° 4,0', and longitude 168°. In the evening, they saw a round 
mountain, about eleven leagues to the N. N. W. ; and during the 
whole day, several smokes were visible along the coast. " Here, 
says Tasman, " I should give a description of the extent of the 
" coast, and the islands near it, but I hope to be excused, and refer, 
" for brevity's sake, to the chart made of it, and herewith joined." 
The ships kept close to the wind all night, as they did in the 
morning of Dec. 5, when it was N. W. by W. The high round 
mountain was then seen bearing west, eight leagues, and this was 
the furthest land visible, nor did the wind allow them to come in 
with it again. At noon, the latitude was judged to be 4,1° 34/, and 
longitude 169 0 ; the course for the last day having been N. E. by N. 
80 miles. Tasman then steered " precisely eastward, to make fur- 
" ther discoveries," agreeably to a resolution of the council, taken 
in the morning. 
The copy of Tasman's charts", given in the Atlas, Plate III. 
of D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage, and taken from Valentyn, is con- 
formable to the manuscript charts in the Dutch journal. There is, 
however, an error of one degree too much east, in the scale of 
longitude ; and Pedra Blanca is erroneously written against the 
Eddystone, in the general chart. In the plan of Frederik Hendrik's 
Bay, the name is placed within the inner bay, instead of being 
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