Tasman’s chart; though the particular plan shews 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 Boreal’s Eylanden of Tasman; 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.”  A copy of Tasman’s charts is given in the atlas to D’Entrecasteaux’s voyage; it is taken from Valantyn, and is conformable to the manuscript charts in the Dutch journal.  But according to Flinders, it has an error of one degree too much east, in the scale of longitude.  Besides, he informs us, “In the plan of Frederik Hendrik’s Bay, the name is placed within the inner bay, instead of being written, as in the original, on the point of land between the inner and outer bays.”  He imagines the name was intended to comprise both, and refers to vol. iii. of Captain Burney’s History of Discoveries in the South Sea, for a copy of Tasman’s charts as they stand in the original.—­E.]

Mr Anderson, my surgeon, with his usual diligence, spent the few days we remained in Adventure Bay, in examining the country.  His account of its natural productions, with which he favoured me, will more than compensate for my silence about them:  Some of his remarks on the inhabitants will supply what I may have omitted, or represented imperfectly; and his specimen of their language, however short, will be thought worth attending to, by those who wish to collect materials for tracing the origin of nations.  I shall only premise, that the tall strait forest trees, which Mr Anderson describes in the following account, are of a different sort from those which are found in the more northern parts of this coast.  The wood is very long and close-grained, extremely tough, fit for spars, oars, and many other uses; and would, on occasion, make good masts, (perhaps none better,) if a method could be found to lighten it.

“At the bottom of Adventure Bay is a beautiful sandy beach, which seems to be wholly formed by the particles washed by the sea from a very fine white sand-stone, that in many places bounds the shore, and of which Fluted Cape, in the neighbourhood, from its appearance, seems to be composed.  This beach is about two miles long, and is excellently adapted for hauling a seine, which both ships did repeatedly with success.  Behind this is a plain or flat, with a salt, or rather brackish lake (running in length parallel with the beach), out of which we caught, with angling rods, many whitish bream, and some small trout.  The other parts of the country adjoining the bay are quite hilly; and both those and the flat are an entire forest of very tall trees, rendered almost impassable by shrubs, brakes of fern, and fallen trees; except on the sides of some of the hills, where the trees are but thin, and a coarse grass is the only interruption.”