 | World - 1852 - 588 דפים
...Peron, he states that Freycinet, one of the lieutenants, addressed CHAP. l> him to this effect : " Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up...would not have discovered the south coast before us." " How then," asks Captain Flinders, Flinders apo" came M. Peron to advance what is so contrary to truth?... | |
 | Samuel Sidney - 1853 - 446 דפים
...Port Jackson, to Flinders, " ' Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up shd'a and catehing butterflies at Van Diemen's Land, you would not have discovered the south coast before us.' I believe M. Peron wrote from overruling anthority, and that it smote him to the boart."— FIMerf... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - 1865 - 478 דפים
...Bonnefoy : ' Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching butterflies in Van Diemen's Land, you would not have discovered the...officers themselves, generally and individually, if such was not the case. How then came Mons. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was he a man... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - 1865 - 482 דפים
...Bonnefoy : ' Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching butterflies in Yan Diemen's Land, you would not have discovered the south...officers themselves, generally and individually, if such was not the case. How then came Mons. Peron to advance what was so contrary to truth ? Was he a man... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1868 - 442 דפים
...Captain," said M. Bonnefoy, " if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching butterfles at Van Diemen's Land, you would not have discovered the south coast before us." No conversation, however, of such a nature took place at this first meeting of the two AUSTEALIAN FISHEBMSN.... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1872 - 74 דפים
...Lieutenant of Le Geographe, Flinders says, that in the house of Governor King, Freycinet said to Flinders, " Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up...would not have discovered the South Coast before us." "How then," says Flinders, with reference to the French claim of prior discovery (after they had, as... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 1170 דפים
...officeri, at a subsequent interview with the commander of the Investigator. " Captain," said M. Bonnefoy, " if we had not been kept so long picking up shells...would not have discovered the south coast before us." No conversation, however, of such a nature took place at this first meeting of the two ... AUSTRALIAN... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - 1886 - 1090 דפים
...''Captain," he said, "if we had not been kept so long picking up shells and catching butterflies in Van Diemen's Land you would not have discovered the south coast before us." As a matter of fact, however, the honor of having made the first discovery on the south coast of South... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1893 - 420 דפים
...Monsieur Peron ; on meeting Flinders some time after at Port Jackson, he said to the English navigator. "Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking...would not have discovered the South Coast before us." portant discoveries he had made, and also sent an account of them to England by the South Sea whaler... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1893 - 412 דפים
...Monsieur Peron ; on meeting Flinders some time after at Port Jackson, he said to the English navigator. " Captain, if we had not been kept so long picking up...would not have discovered the South Coast before us." On the 9th of May, 1802, the Investigator anchored at Port Jackson, where Flinders was heartily welcomed... | |
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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 before us. 
