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King's Third Voyage Early misadventures Examines North-West coast closely The Mermaid careened Unforeseen result Return to Sydney The Bathurst King's Fourth Voyage Last of the MERMAID Love's stratagem Remarkable cavern Extraordinary drawings Chasm Island South-West explorations Revisits his old camp Rich vegetation Greville Island Skirmish at Hanover Bay Reminiscence of Dampier His notes on the natives and their mode of living Cape Leveque Buccaneers' Archipelago Provisions run out Sails for the Mauritius Survey of South-West re-commenced Cape Chatham Oyster Harbour anchorage A native's toilet Seal hunt Friendly intercourse Cape Inscription Vandalism Point Cloates not an island Vlaming Head Rowley Shoals Cunningham Botanical success Rogers Island closely examined Mainland traced further An amazing escape from destruction Relinquishment of survey Sails for Sydney Value of King's work Settlement on Melville Island Port Essington Colonisation Fort building A waif Roguish visitors Garrison life Change of scene Raffles Bay Dismal reports Failure of attempt.
The hooker, the NYPTANGH, Captain Gerrit Collaert, of Amsterdam, Assistant Theodorus Heermans, of the same place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz, of Bremen; then the galliot WESELTJE, Commander Cornelis de Vlaming, of Vlielandt; Pilot Coert Gerritz, from Bremen. In 1801, the boatswain of the NATURALISTE found this plate half buried in sand, lying near an oaken post to which it had been nailed.
Vlaming was the discoverer of the Swan River, upon which the seaport town of Fremantle and the picturesque city of Perth, in Western Australia, now stand. This river he discovered in 1697, and he was the first who saw Dirk Hartog's tin plate.
For example, Paliser on the western coast was one of the first victims of these shores; Vlaming speaks of wrecks by which Rottnest island was covered when he landed there in 1697; and we ourselves observed others of much more recent date.
And among the numerous voyages undertaken by the Dutch East India Company towards the close of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, to examine this vast country, which the Dutch regarded as belonging to them, there was one by Van Vlaming deserving of notice: this navigator examined with great care and attention many bays and harbours on the west side; and he is the first who mentions the black swans of this country.
He it was who called the whole, believing it to be one, New Holland, after the land of his birth. Next we have Dampier, an English buccaneer though the name sounds very like Dutch; it was probably by chance only that he and his roving crew visited these shores. Then came Wilhelm Vlaming with three ships. God save the mark to call such things ships.
King found that former navigators had taken that part of the coast he named Point Cloates for an island, calling it Cloates Island; the next day Vlaming Head, of the North-West Cape, came in sight, and a north course bore him to Rowley Shoals, wishing to fix their position with greater correctness, and to examine the extent of the bight round Cape Leveque, which during the earlier part of their voyage they were obliged to leave unexplored.
His notes on this occasion refer chiefly to the natives seen, whose personal appearance and habits he considers alike equally disgusting and repulsive. Towards the end of the year 1696, William de Vlaming, in search of the RIDDERSCHAP, a missing ship supposed to have been wrecked on the coast of New Holland, came to the Great South Land.
The Dutch captain, Vlaming, in 1697, had reported finding gigantic human footprints upon the banks of the Swan River, near where the city of Perth now stands; and two of Baudin's officers, whose names were not Munchausen and Sindbad but Heirisson and Moreau, declared that they also had observed the same phenomena at the same place.
"The River of Swans," says M. Bailly, .'was discovered in 1697 by Vlaming, and was thus named by him, from the great number of black swans he there saw.
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