Dentrecasteaux

The result was that many corrections and additions to the charts of Vancouver and Dentrecasteaux were made before the entirely new discoveries were commenced.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

Dentrecasteaux, despatched in search of the missing expedition of Laperouse, also made the south-west corner of the continent, and followed the coast of the Great Australian Bight for some hundreds of miles.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The instructions to Baudin were very similar to those which had been given to Laperouse and Dentrecasteaux in previous years, being drafted by the same hand, and some paragraphs in an “instruction particuliere,” show that the French were thoroughly up-to-date with their information, and knew in what parts of the coast fresh work required to be done.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

The expeditions of Laperouse (1785 to 1788) and of Dentrecasteaux (1791 to 1796) were evidence of their concern with the problems awaiting elucidation.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

He simply authorised it, as head of the State, when the proposition was laid before him by the Institute of France, a scientific body, concerned with the augmentation of knowledge, and anxious that an effort should be made to complete a task which the abortive expeditions of Laperouse and Dentrecasteaux had failed to accomplish.

The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914

Laperouse was drowned; de Langle was murdered; Dentrecasteaux died miserably at sea; Kermadec, the fourth, had expired shortly before; and Baudin, the fifth, died at Port Louis on the homeward voyage.

Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903

Thus, for the second time, was a French navigator directed to explore the southern coasts of Australia; and had Dentrecasteaux followed the plan laid down for him he would have forestalled the discoveries of

Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903

Dentrecasteaux that his business primarily was not geographical discovery, but to get news of his lost compatriots.

Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903

Consequently we should, by observing this little difference, remind ourselves of Dentrecasteaux 'period and circumstances.

Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903

As a French writer -- an expert in this field of knowledge -- has written of Fleurieu, "he it was who prepared nearly all the plans for naval operations during the war of 1778, and the instructions for the voyages of discovery -- those of Laperouse and Dentrecasteaux -- for which Louis XVI had given general directions; and to whose wise and well-informed advice is due in large part the utility derived from them."

Laperouse Ernest Scott 1903