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voyages scientific and
exploratory. The Institute of France and its proposition. Received by
Bonaparte with interest. Bonaparte's interest in geography and travel.
His authorisation of the expedition. The Committee of the Institute and
their instructions. Fitting out of the expedition. Le Geographe and Le
Naturaliste. The staff. Francois Peron. Captain Nicolas Baudin.
CHAPTER 8.
EXODUS OF THE EXPEDITION.
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.
Among native women. A question of colour. Separation of the ships by
storm. Baudin sails through Bass Strait, and meets Flinders. Scurvy.
Great storms and intense suffering. Le Geographe at Port Jackson.
CHAPTER 9.
PORT JACKSON AND KING ISLAND.

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. Peron's
impressions of the British settlement. Morand, the banknote forger.
Baudin shows his charts and instructions to King. Departure of the
French ships. Rumours as to their objects. King's prompt action. The
Cumberland sent after them. Acting Lieutenant Robbins at King Island.
The flag incident. Baudin's letters to King. His protestations. Views on
colonisation. Le Naturaliste sails for Europe.
CHAPTER 10.
RETURN OF THE EXPEDITION.
Le Geographe sails for Kangaroo Island. Exploration of the two gulfs
in the Casuarina by Freycinet. Baudin's erratic behaviour. Port Lincoln.
Peron among the giants. A painful excursion. Second visit to Timor.
Abandonment of north coast exploration. Baudin resolves to return
home. Voyage to Mauritius. Death of Baudin. Treatment of him by
Peron and Freycinet. Return of Le Geographe. Depression of the staff
and crew.
CHAPTER 11.
RESULTS.
Establishment of the First Empire. Reluctance of the French
Government to publish a record of the expedition. Report of the
Institute. The official history of the voyage authorised. Peron's
scientific work. His discovery of Pyrosoma atlanticum. Other scientific
memoirs. His views on the modification of species. Geographical
results. Freycinet's charts.
CHAPTER 12.
CONCLUSIONS AND CONSEQUENCES.

Further consideration of Napoleon's purposes. What Australia owes to
British sea power. Influence of the Napoleonic wars. Fresh points
relative to Napoleon's designs. Absence of evidence. Consequences of
suspicions of French intentions. Promotion of settlement in Tasmania.
Tardy occupation of Port Phillip. The Swan River Settlement. The
Westernport scheme. Lord John Russell's claim of "the Whole" of
Australia for the British. The designs of Napoleon III. Australia the
nursling of sea power.
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.
LE GEOGRAPHE AND LE NATURALISTE. From the drawing in
Freycinet's Atlas of 1807.
MAP OF NEW HOLLAND (AUSTRALIA). From Freycinet's Atlas of
1807.
ADMIRALTY CHART OF ENTRANCE TO PORT PHILLIP.
TRACK CHART OF LE GEOGRAPHE. From Freycinet's Atlas of
1812.
MAP OF TERRE NAPOLEON. From Freycinet's Atlas of 1807.
FRENCHMAN'S ROCK, KANGAROO ISLAND. From a photograph
by Mr. Alfred Searcy, Harbourmaster, South Australia.
GENERAL CHARLES DECAEN. After the portrait in the Library at
Caen.
CAPTAIN NICOLAS BAUDIN. From an engraving.
FRANCOIS PERON. From the drawing by Lesueur.
TITLE-PAGE OF FREYCINET'S ATLAS OF CHARTS, 1812.

COMPARATIVE CHRONOLOGY.
1602. Abel Tasman born.
1603. Death of Queen Elizabeth.
1606. Voyage of Quiros; finding and naming of Austrialia del Espiritu
Santo.
1606. First charter to the Virginia Company.
1620. Pilgrim Fathers found colony of New Plymouth.
1642. Tasman's first voyage; discovery of Tasmania.
1643. Death of Louis XIII.
1644. Tasman's second voyage; exploration of northern Australia.
1649. Execution of Charles I.
1652. Birth of William Dampier.
1655. English conquest of Jamaica.
1658. Death of Oliver Cromwell.
1659. Death of Tasman.
1682. Penn founds Pennsylvania.
1683. The French found Louisiana.
1686 to 1688. Dampier's voyage in the Cygnet; anchorage in Cygnet
Bay, Western Australia.
1688. Fall of the Stuart dynasty; accession of William of Orange.
1699. Dampier's voyage in the Roebuck; anchorage in Sharks Bay.

1714. Death of Queen Anne.
1728. Birth of James Cook.
1756. Birth of Nicolas Baudin. De Brosses publishes his Histoire des
Navigations aux Terres Australes.
1759. Wolfe captures Quebec.
1765. Watt's invention of the steam-engine.
1766. Bougainville's voyage to the South Seas.
1768 to 1770. Cook's voyage in the Endeavour; discovery of Botany
Bay, Port Jackson, and eastern Australia.
1769. Charles Decaen born.
1769. Birth of Napoleon Bonaparte.
1771. Marion-Dufresne's voyage to Tasmania and New Zealand.
1773. Boston tea riots.
1774. Matthew Flinders born.
1774. Meeting of first American Congress.
1775. Francois Peron born.
1776. Declaration of Independence.
1778 to 1779. Cook's third voyage and death.
1778. Death of Chatham.
1785 to 1788. Voyage of La Perouse; call at Port Jackson.
1788. Founding of New South Wales.

1789. Mutiny