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behind, the northern mass towering above the southern. To the 
north Cape Mauge was in view, which lias since gained a melan¬ 
choly distinction as the burial place of the amiable and talented 
M. Mauge, who visited these coasts in 1802, under Baudin of 
the Geographe . Ilis was the first European blood shed by the 
natives of this Island; it was shed without provocation, in the 
wantonness of barbarian ferocity, after numerous proofs of kind¬ 
ness had been bestowed, and no measures were taken to avenge 
it. It is scarcely forty years since the first white man’s bones 
were thus laid in Tasmanian soil, and who shall say that its 
ancient tenants have not paid the full price of his blood ? 
Towards the west the long sandy beach of Marion Bay ap¬ 
peared, with the surf from the great Pacific thundering upon its 
shores. And to the S.W. and S. our discoverer would discern, 
at no great distance from his anchorage, the cliffs and bays, the 
castled rocks and caves, and green woodlands of Forestier’s 
Peninsula. Looking eastward, he rode exposed to the boundless 
ocean, now subsiding from the storms of the preceding days. 
On the 2nd December, early in the morning, two armed boats 
were despatched to look for fresh water, and other refreshments. 
They rowed round the point now called Cape Paul Lamanon, 
within which a whaling station was established in after years, 
whose ruins are still visible, and the shore is thickly strewn with 
the bones of many hundred whales whitening in the sun. Further 
on they passed the romantic inlet and spring ouce occupied by 
Gardener’s whaling station ; and after rowing round the point a 
good German mile, came within the entrance to Blackman’s Bay, 
called the Narrows, and found good fresh water, which flowed so 
slowly that while they remained they could only get one pailful. 
They collected a quantity of greens, which were in all probability 
the Canagong (Mesembryanthemuni aquilaterale) of the abori¬ 
gines, long and of a saltish taste. They heard human voices, and 
a sound like that of a trumpet or conch; which is most likely the 
first recorded instance of a cooey. They saw two trees from 
twelve to fifteen feet in diameter, and from sixty to sixty-five 
feet high from the ground to the branches. Such trees are still 
to be found upon the lower ground of Forestier s Peninsula. But 
