ns particulieres. Nous apprimes toutefois par
quelques-uns de ses matelots, qu'il avoit eu beaucoup a souffrir de ces
memes vents de la partie du Sud qui nous avoient ete si favorables, et ce
fut alors sur-tout que nous pumes apprecier davantage toute la sagesse de
nos propres instructions. Apres avoir converse plus d'une heure avec
_nous_," (no person except Mr. Brown was present at my conversation with
captain Baudin, as I have already said), "le capitaine FLINDERS repartit
pour son bord, promettant de revenir le lendemain matin nous apporter une
carte particuliere de la riviere _Dalrymple_, qu'il venait de publier en
Angleterre. Il revint en effet, le 9 avril, nous la remettre, et bientot
apres nous le quittames pour reprendre la suite de nos tra vaux
geographiques." p. 325.

"L'ile principale de ce dernier groupe" (their _Archipel Berthier_) "se
dessine sous la forme d'un immense hamacon." (Thistle's Island seems to
he here meant.) "Independamment de toutes ces iles, il en existe encore
plus de vingt autres disseminees aux environs de la pointe occidentale du
golfe et en dehors de son entee: chacune d'elles fut designee par un de
ces noms honorables dont notre patrie s'enorgueillit a juste titre." p.
327.

_Voyage de Decouverte aux Terres Australes_, redige par M. F. Peron,
Naturaliste de l'expedition, etc. Paris, 1807.]

It is said by M. Peron, and upon my authority too, that the Investigator
had not been able to penetrate behind the Isles of St. Peter and St.
Francis; and though he doth not say directly that no part of the before
unknown coast was discovered by me, yet the whole tenor of his Chap. XV
induces the reader to believe that I had done nothing which could
interfere with the prior claim of the French.

Yet M. Peron was present afterwards at Port Jackson when I showed one of
my charts of this coast to captain Baudin, and pointed out the limits of
his discovery; and so far from any prior title being set up at that time
to Kangaroo Island and the parts westward, the officers of the Geographe
always spoke of them as belonging to the Investigator. The first
lieutenant, Mons. Freycinet, even made use of the following odd
expression, addressing himself to me in the house of governor King, and
in the presence of one of his companions, I think Mons. Bonnefoy:
"Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching
butterflies at Van Diemen's Land, you would not have discovered the South
Coast