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INTRODUCTION. 
[Prior Discoveries. 
fetch into Adventure Bay, did the same hy Cape Frederick Henry* 
1798. At noon, this cape bore S. 13 0 W. eight miles, and Fluted Cape was 
behind it in the same bearing. I proposed to enter the Derwent 
River ; but on making a stretch toward Betsey's Island,-}- it appeared 
that the Henshaw's Bay of Hayes, instead of being a shallow bight, 
was a deep opening ; and as the north-west wind blew out of the 
Derwent, we stretched on, seven miles above the island, and came 
to an anchor in 10 fathoms, sandy ground. This opening is the 
North Bay of D'Entrecasteaux ; but I was totally ignorant, at that 
time, of its having ever been entered. 
Dec. 15, the wind being at north-west, we passed a sloping 
island (Isle St. Aignan of D'Extrecasteaux ) , and steered north-east- 
ward, to explore the inlet. After running three-and-half miles, 
with soundings from 13 no bottom, to 5 fathoms, we anchored under 
a small island, which lies S. 75 0 W., one mile and a half, from Point 
Renard, the uppermost station of the French boats. This small spot 
received the descriptive name of Isle of Caves, and lies in the passage 
from North Bay to a large extent of water which appeared to the 
eastward, and which the French boats did not explore. 
From the Isle of Caves we ran six miles, E. S. E. up the new 
bay, for Smooth Island. The width of the entrance, from Point 
Renard to Green Head, is two miles, the soundings are from 6 to 
16 fathoms, and there are no dangers. Smooth Island, behind which 
we anchored in 4 fathoms, and where I again landed 10 take bearings, 
is three quarters of a mile long, and covered with grass and a few 
small trees. It had been visited by the natives, as had the Isle of 
* This name, given by captain Furneaux, is altered in D'Entrecasteaux's voyage to that 
of Cape Trobriand The captain was undoubtedly mistaken in his ideas concerning 
Frederik Hendrik's Bay ; but this does not appear to be a sufficient reason for chang- 
ing the established name of this cape, unless Tasman had applied it to some other 
land, which is not the case. 
t This is the Isle Willaumez, of D'Entrecasteaux ; but it was known to me from the 
sketch of captain Hayes, and is still to the colonists, under the name of Betsey's Island. 
