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The passports from the English Government. Sailing of the expedition. French interest in it. The case of Ah Sam. Baudin's obstinacy. Short supplies. The French ships on the Western Australian coast. The Ile Lucas and its name. Refreshment at Timor. The English frigate Virginia. Baudin sails south. Shortage of water. The French in Tasmania. Peron among the aboriginals. The savage and the boat.
He might also have quoted, had he been aware of it, an excellent saying of Nelson's: "It is easier for an officer to keep men healthy than for a physician to cure them." Le Naturaliste at Sydney. Boullanger's boat party. Curious conduct of Baudin. Le Naturaliste sails for Mauritius, but returns to Port Jackson. Re-union of Baudin's ships. Hospitality of Governor King.
Baudin's one of a series of French expeditions. The building up of the map of Australia. Early map-makers. Terra Australis. Dutch navigators. Emmerie Mollineux's map. Tasman and Dampier. The Petites Lettres of Maupertuis. De Brosses and his Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes. French voyages that originated from it. Bougainville; Marion-Dufresne; La Perouse; Bruni Dentrecasteaux.
Baudin, after his remarkable exploits in 1800 to 1804, was the last man whom Napoleon would have chosen to try to annihilate a British settlement anywhere. Rather, in such an unlikely event, would his own crew have been in danger of annihilation from his methods. Le Geographe sails for Kangaroo Island. Exploration of the two gulfs in the Casuarina by Freycinet. Baudin's erratic behaviour.
Baudin's readiness to produce his own passport when "requested" in a style prompt if not peremptory, it would seem and his indifference about that of the English commander, should be noted as the first of a series of facts which establish the purely peaceful character of the French expedition. Baudin talked freely about the work upon which he had been engaged in Tasmanian waters.
But there was, it seems, a peculiar vein of perversity in Baudin's character, which made him prone to do that which everybody wished him not to do. We may disregard many of the disparaging sentences in which Peron refers to "notre commandant" never by name because Peron so evidently detested Baudin that he is a doubtful witness in matters of conduct and character.
Captain Cook compared to former Visitors Point Hicks Botany Bay-First natives seen Indifference to Overtures Abundant flora Entrance to Port Jackson missed ENDEAVOUR on a reef Careened Strange animals Hostile natives A sailor's devil Possession Island-Territory of New South Wales Torres Straits a passage La Perouse Probable fate discovered by Captain Dillon M'Cluer touches Arnheim's Land Bligh and Portlock Wreck of the PANDORA Vancouver in the south The D'Entrecasteaux quest Recherche Archipelago Bass and Flinders Navigation and exploration extraordinary The TOM THUMB Bass explores south Flinders in the Great Bight Bass's Straits Flinders in the INVESTIGATOR Special instructions King George's Sound Lossof boat's crew Memory Cove Baudin's courtesy Port Phillip INVESTIGATOR and LADY NELSON on East Coast The Gulf of Carpentaria and early Dutch navigators Duyfhen Point Cape Keer-Weer Mythical rivers charted Difficulty in recognising their landmarks Flinders' great disappointment A rotten ship Return by way of West Coast Cape Vanderlin Dutch Charts Malay proas, Pobassoo Return to Port Jackson Wreck of the PORPOISE Prisoner by the French General de Caen Private papers and journals appropriated Prepares his charts and logs for press Death Sympathy by strangers Forgotten by Australia The fate of Bass Mysterious disappearance Supposed Death.
There is not, for example, the slightest allusion to Baudin's expedition or the Terre Napoleon incidents in Thiers' twenty-tomed Histoire du Consulat et de l'Empire; nor can the reader get much assistance from consulting many British works on the same epoch. An endeavour has, however, been made to set the facts in their right perspective, by a brilliant contemporary English historian, Dr.
So much cannot, however, be stated positively, because Flinders was not the only prisoner in behalf of whom the President of the Royal Society had interested himself, though his was the only case which attracted a very large amount of public attention. But what is chiefly significant is the absence of any reference to Australia and Baudin's expedition in the St.
There Le Naturaliste also appeared rather more than a month later, and the two ships remained in the Dutch port till November 13, Baudin's vessel having thus been at anchor fifty-six days. There was no hurrying. In the month of October an English frigate, the Virginia, suddenly made her appearance in the offing, with her decks cleared for action.
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