Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . great danger by a gale upon the 4th of MAN UPON THE SEA. 327 February, her want of ballast—unladen as she was—renderingher light as a cockle-shell. With the opening of spring, thecaptain determined to return to England, and offered to carryback any of the colonists who might be disheartened by thecalamities which had overtaken them,—for they had buriedhalf their number. But their sufferings had endeared the soilto them, and not one embraced the opportunity of ret
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . great danger by a gale upon the 4th of MAN UPON THE SEA. 327 February, her want of ballast—unladen as she was—renderingher light as a cockle-shell. With the opening of spring, thecaptain determined to return to England, and offered to carryback any of the colonists who might be disheartened by thecalamities which had overtaken them,—for they had buriedhalf their number. But their sufferings had endeared the soilto them, and not one embraced the opportunity of Mayflower left Plymouth on the 5th of April, 1621, andmade the run home to London in thirty days. She seems tohave performed several voyages back and forth, and, in 1630,arrived in the harbor of Charlestown, with a portion of Win-throps company of emigrants. Her subsequent history is veryuncertain; and all attempts to ascertain it have been baffled bythe circumstance that several ships bore the name of Mayflower,and no reliable means exist of distinguishing her of Pilgrimcelebrity from others of obscurer TASMANS VESSEL,—THE ZEEHAAN. CHAPTER XXXVI. DISCOVERY OF NEW HOLLAND—TASMAN ORDERED TO SURVEY THE ISLAND— DISCOVERY OF VAN DIEMENs LAND OF NEW ZEALAND—MURDERERS BAY— THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS—THE FEEJEES—NEW BRITAIN—AN EARTHQUAKE AT SEA A COriOUS LANGUAGE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW HOLLAND RETURN TO BATAVIA—RESULTS OF THE VOYAGE—DUTCH OPINIONS OF TASMANSMERIT. The Council of the Dutch East India Company thoughtproper, in 1642, to order a complete and precise survey of thelands accidentally discovered during the previous fifty years byvessels trading between Holland and Batavia, in Java. Thesehad touched, at intervals, at numerous points upon the conti-nental island of New Holland,—Ilertog at Endrachts Land in1G16, and De Witt, Van Nuyts, and Carpenter at other points,somewhat later. It was eminently desirable that a scientific navigator sho
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