Nepean, Evan, Secretary of the Admiralty, 176, 238
Nepean Peninsula, 236n, 238, 242
Nichols, Isaac, case of, 157
Norfolk, sloop, 134
Flinders' description of, 138
Importance of voyage, 142-3
Voyage to Queensland coast, 158 et seq.
Northumberland, Cape, 234
Nuyts, Pieter, 69, 205
Observations on the Coast of Van Diemen's Land, publication of, 171
Otto, L. G., 173-4
Otway, Cape, 234, 235, 236
Palmer, Captain of Bridgewater, 290-1
Pandora's Entrance, 269, 471
Papuans, fight with in Torres Strait, 34 et seq.
Park, Mungo, and the Investigator, 178
Parramatta, 440
Partney Isle, 211, 469
Pasley, Admiral Sir Thomas, Flinders' introduction to, 18
His interest in Flinders' career, 29
Command of Bellerophon, 42
Wounded in battle off Brest, 46
Character of, 61-2
Pasley, Cape, naming of, 62, 467
Paterson, Lieut.-Col., 250, 251, 257, 439
Peel, Sir Robert, 426
Pellew, Rear-Admiral, his interest in Flinders' case, 364
Pellew Group, 273, 472
Pelsart, Francis, on the Australian Coast, 69
Percy Isles, 268, 471
Péron, Francois, at Sydney, 253
His report on British settlement, 254, 436 et seq.
Plays the spy on British designs, 257
Flinders on, 262
Scientific work of, 263
Effect of his report on Decaen, 337
Malte-Brun on, 387-8
Death of, 388
Petrie, Professor W. M., Flinders, grandson of Matthew Flinders, 6, 401n
Phillip Island, 115
Pinkerton, Modern Geography, 71
Pitot, Thomas, 357, 358, 407
Pitt, Mount, 129
Plagiarism, allegation against the French, 327, 383 et seq.
Freycinet on, 390
Pondicherry, 316
Porpoise, Flinders sails in, 285
Wreck of, 287, 344, 384
Port Bowen, 268
Port Curtis, 267
Port Hacking, 92, 104
Port Jackson, see Sydney,
Port Lincoln, 211
Discovery and survey of, 214
Port Louis, 305, 307. 321 et seq.
Port Phillip, 116, 225
Flinders in, 233 et seq.
Discovery of, 237
Attempted settlement of, 243
Portland Bay, 235
Portlock, Lieutenant N., Commander of Assistant, 29
Portsea, 242
Preservation Island, 127, 465
Providence, H.M.S., 29 et seq., 270
Providential Cove, see Wattamolla,
