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Relying upon the reports of Tasman, he considered New Zealand and "la terre de Diemen" that is, Tasmania too distant and too little known for an experiment; whilst the narratives of Dampier did not make those parts of New Holland that he had visited the west and north of Australia appear attractive.
But there is nothing to be seen for all that; and though more than three hundred pairs of eyes keep anxious ward and watch, darkness falls before an almost imperceptible cloud upon the far horizon is pronounced oracularly by the mate to be Cape Maria Van Diemen, New Zealand's north-western-most promontory.
"I must have a look," Tinman broke from him, and cast a forlorn look of farewell on the last of the house on the beach. "You've got me left to you, old Mart; don't forget that," said Van Diemen. Tinman's chest fell. "Yes, yes," he responded. He was touched. "And I told those fellows if they landed you dry they should have I'd give them double pay; and I do believe they've earned their money."
From this time a succession of fair winds and pleasant weather corresponded to our eager desires, and on the 7th of January, 1788, the long wished for shore of Van Diemen gratified our sight.
At any rate, it's known; and the thing to do is to meet it." "I'm off. I'll not stop a day. I'd rather live on the Continent," said Van Diemen, shaking himself, as to prepare for the step into that desert. "Mr. Tinman has been most generous!" Annette protested tearfully. "I won't say no: I think you are deceived and lend him your own generosity," said Herbert.
Tinman is pretty sure to be known generally at the next disagreement." "That scoundrel Mart!" Van Diemen muttered. "I am positive Mr. Tinman did not speak of you, papa," said Annette, and turned her eyes from the half-paralyzed figure of her father on Herbert to put him to proof. "No, but he made himself heard when it was being discussed.
Immigration, other than the transport of criminals, began only in 1825; and the white population of New South Wales, which in 1810 was only eight thousand three hundred, in 1821 only thirty thousand, increased rapidly after the discovery of the gold- fields in 1851, so that in 1861 more than seven hundred thousand free colonists had been landed from British ships on the continent and large islands of Van Diemen and New Zealand, notwithstanding their enormous distance from Great Britain.
The sound of sawing attracted him to Crickledon's shop, and the industrious carpenter soon put him on the tide of affairs. Crickledon pointed to the house on the beach as the place where Mr. Van Diemen Smith and his daughter were staying. "Dear me! and how does he look?" said Fellingham. "Our town seems to agree with him, sir." "Well, I must not say any more, I suppose."
Mart." Tinman simpered: "With your wealth!" "Ay, I 'm rich for a contented mind." "I 'm pretty sure you 'll approve my new vintage," said Tinman. "It's direct from Oporto, my wine-merchant tells me, on his word." "What's the price?" "No, no, no. Try it first. It's rather a stiff price." Van Diemen was partially reassured by the announcement. "What do you call a stiff price?" "Well! over thirty."
Tasman did not know that he had discovered an island, but thought that he had discovered a part of the mainland of Australia; so he named it Van Diemen's Land, in honor of his patron, Anthony Van Diemen, Governor of the Dutch East Indies.
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