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beyond the remark that bush fires were everywhere visible. On 
the 5th he stood away to the N.E. and lost sight of the land, the 
part last seen being the round mountain (St. Patrick’s Head) 
which was then due west, six (German) miles distant: nor is it 
probable that these remote shores were again seen by European 
eyes until the visit of the Marquis dc Castries, in the Mascarin, 
in the year 1772. 
Some difficulty has been made as to the true site of Erederik 
Hendrik’s Bay, the name of which Tasman has marked in such 
a way (the words lying on the part of the map between Black - 
man’s Bay on the west, and North Bay on the east), as to be¬ 
long to either. A personal inspection of the spot has led to the 
opinion that the small bay on the north-western shore of North 
Bay, in which the prince’s flag was planted, is the true Frederik 
Hendrik’s Bay. North Bay lies north of Lagoon Bay, and is 
five to seven miles across. Entering it from the south, we first 
come to the beach of white sand, now called Two-Mile Beach, 
upon which there are no trees of the size alluded to by Tasman, 
nor any at all in the neighbourhood until the northern extremity 
of the beach, where a few eucalypti grow in a position south-west 
of Tasman’s anchorage. Inaccessible cliffs succeed the Two- 
Mile Beach for at least a mile; passing which we come to the 
little bay, which though nameless in the maps, or included under 
the name of North Bay, is doubtless the Frederik Hendrik s Bay 
of Tasman. It is nearly W.S.W. from the anchorage, as de¬ 
scribed in the journal, and noble trees grow in abundance round 
it. The grey shingle and boulder-stones indicate the true nature 
of Tasman’s anchoring ground, namely, a grey sand, as noted by 
him in contradistinction to the white sand of Two-Mile Beach on 
the one side, and Marion Bay on the other. Inaccessible cliffs 
occupy the remainder of the coast up to Gape Paul Lamanon, 
where North Bay in its widest sense may be said to terminate. 
We must not forget that in the year 1642 the Dutch Council of 
the Indies paid a jealous, and, in many points, an almost nominal 
obedience to the Stadtliolder of the House of Orange. Although 
Tasman had to take possession in the name of Frederik Hendrik 
of Orange, it is plain to see that he was but little inclined to honor 
