A year after Marion had quitted Frederik Hendrik’s Bay, Van Diemen’s Land was visited by captain TOBIAs FURNEAUX, in His Majesty’s ship Adventure.  He made the South-west Cape on March 9, and steered eastward, close to the islands and rocks called Maatsuyker’s, by Tasman; and behind which lay a bold shore, which seemed to afford several anchoring places.  Some of these rocks resembled, says captain Furneaux, “the Mewstone, particularly one which we so named, about four or five leagues E. S. E. 1/2 E. off the above cape, which Tasman has not mentioned, or laid down in his draughts.” * This is nevertheless the lion-head-shaped island, particularly mentioned by Tasman, as lying twelve miles out from the coast:  the mistake arose from the imperfection of the accounts.  After passing Maatsuyker’s Isles, captain Furneaux sent a boat to the main land, on the 10th, and the people found places where the natives had been., and where pearl scallop shells were scattered about.  “The soil seemed to be very rich; the country well clothed with wood, particularly on the lee sides of the hills; plenty of water which falls from the rocks in beautiful cascades, for two or three hundred feet perpendicular, into the sea; but they did not see the least sign of any place to anchor in with safety.”

[* Cook’s Second Voyage, Vol.  I. p. 109.]

On the return of the boat, captain Furneaux made sail, and came to “the westernmost point of a very deep bay, called by Tasman Stormy Bay.  From the west to the east point of this bay there are several small islands, and black rocks which we called the Friars.”  From the Friars he followed the coast N. by E. four leagues, and the same evening anchored in ADVENTURE BAY.  “We first took this bay,” says the captain, “to be that which Tasman called Frederik Henry Bay; but afterwards found that his is laid down five leagues to the northward.”

Captain Furneaux here mistook the Storm and Frederik Hendrik’s Bays of Tasman; and he has been followed in this error by all the succeeding navigators of the same nation, which has created not a little confusion in the geography of this part of the world.

The bay supposed to have been Storm Bay, has no name in Tasman’s chart; though the particular plan shows that he noticed it, as did Marion more distinctly.  The rocks marked at the east point of this bay, and called the Friars, are the Boreel’s Eylanden of Tasman; and the true Storm Bay is the deep inlet, of which Adventure Bay is a cove.  Frederik Hendrik’s Bay is not within this inlet, but lies to the north-eastward, on the outer side of the land which captain Furneaux, in consequence of his first mistake, took to be Maria’s Island, but which, in fact, is a part of the main land.  All this is evident from a close comparison of the forms of the land in the two charts, and is corroborated by the differences of longitude from the Mewstone.