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A VOYAGE TO 
[South Coast. 
1802. more desirous of communicating information, I was happy to receive 
rriday 9. it ; next morning, however, he had become inquisitive, some of his 
officers having learned from my boat's crew that our object was 
also discovery. I then told him, generally, what our operations had 
been, particularly in the two gulphs, and the latitude to which I had 
ascended in the largest ; explained the situation of Port Lincoln, 
where fresh water might be procured ; showed him Cape Jervis, 
which was still in sight ; and as a proof of the refreshments to be ob- 
tained at the large island opposite to it, pointed out the kanguroo- 
skin caps worn by my boat's crew ; and told him the name I had 
affixed to the island in consequence. At parting, the captain requested 
me to take care of his boat and people, in case of meeting with them ; 
and to say to Le Naturaliste, that he should go to Port Jackson so 
soon as the bad weather set in. On my asking the name of the captain 
of Le Naturaliste, he bethought himself to ask mine ; and finding it 
to be the x same as the author of the chart which he had been criticis- 
ing, expressed not a little surprise ; but had the politeness to con- 
gratulate himself on meeting me. 
The situation of the Investigator, when I hove to for the pur- 
pose of speaking captain Baudin, was 35 0 40' south, and 138 0 58' 
east. No person was present at our conversations except Mr. Brown ; 
and they were mostly carried on in English, which the captain spoke 
so as to be understood. He gave me, besides what is related above, 
some information of his losses in men, separations from his consort, 
and of the improper season at which he was directed to explore this 
coast; as also a memorandum of some rocks he had met with, lying 
two leagues from the shore, in latitude 37° 1', and he spoke of them 
as being very dangerous. 
I have been the more particular in detailing all that passed at 
this interview, from a circumstance which it seems proper to explain 
and discuss in this place. 
At the above situation of 35 0 40' south, and 138 0 58' east, the 
discoveries made by captain Baudin upon the South Coast have their 
