 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...wind, that it was the French national ship Le Geographe, under the command of Captain Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as Le Geographe was passing, so as...on board the French ship, which had. also hove to. " As I did not understand French, Mr. Brown, the naturalist, went with me in the boat. We were received... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 478 pages
...vessel Le Geographe, under the command of Captain Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as Le Geograplie was passing, so as to keep our broadside to her, lest...on board the French ship, which had also hove to. As I did not understand French, Mr. Brown the naturalist went with me in the boat. We were received... | |
 | George William Rusden - Australia - 1883 - 704 pages
...as South Australia. In Encounter Bay he met the French ship ' Geographe ' ; hailed her ; hove to ; " veered round as ' Le Geographe ' was passing, so as...her, lest the flag of truce should be a deception;" went on board with Mr. Brown the naturalist, who spoke French, learned that the Frenchman had been... | |
 | George William Rusden - Australia - 1883 - 692 pages
...Encounter Bay he met the French ship ' Geographe'; hailed her; hove to; "veered round as 'Le Geograpbe' was passing, so as to keep our broadside to her, lest the flag of truce should be a deception;" went on board with Mr. Brown the naturalist, who spoke French, learned that the Frenchman had been... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...shortly afterwards he met with the French ship Le Gtographe Captain Baudin ; says Flinders : — • " We veered round as Le Geographe was passing, so as...on board the French ship, which had also hove to." EARLY DUTCH CHARTING. 329 The two Captains exchanged passports and information, but Flinders was afterwards... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - South Australia - 1893 - 412 pages
...national ship Le Geographe, under the command of Onptain Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as Lr Geoyraphe was passing, so as to keep our broadside to her, lest...and I went on board the French ship, which had also hove-to." The passports of both captains were exchanged and read, and Flinders learned that his fellow-navigator... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - South Australia - 1893 - 420 pages
...t'aptnin Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as L» ti&ymphe was passing, so as to keep our broadside to hw, lest the flag of truce should be a deception, and...and I went on board the French ship, which had also hove-to." The passports of both captains were exchanged and read, and Flinders learned that his fellow-navigator... | |
 | Henry Thomas Burgess - Arno Bay (S. Aust.) - 1907 - 654 pages
...that it was the French national ship, 'Le Geographe,' under the command of Captain Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as 'Le Geographe' was passing so as to keep our broadside to bear in case the flag of truce should be a deception, and having come to the wind on the other tack,... | |
 | Sir Ernest Scott - Australia - 1914 - 618 pages
...whom he was addressing. Still the wariness of the English captain was not to be lulled; he records, "we veered round as Le Geographe was passing, so as...her, lest the flag of truce should be a deception." But being now satisfied of her good faith, Flinders brought his ship to the wind on the opposite tack,... | |
 | Joseph Bryant - Australia - 1928 - 210 pages
...wind, that it was the French national ship Le Geographe, under the command of Captain Nicholas Baudin. We veered round as Le Geographe was passing, so as...her, lest the flag of truce should be a deception.' (Flinders evidently held that according to the proverb, it is better to be safe than sorry.) As the... | |
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Baudin. We veered round as Le Geographe was passing, so as to keep our broadside to her, lest the flag of truce should be a deception; and having come to the wind on the other tack, a boat was hoisted out, and I went on board the French ship, which had... 
