Note 69 — Chapter XXIV · 1763-1770.
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It is not a little singular that neither Middleton, Ellis, Christopher, Johnston nor Garbet, all of which explorers had visited Marble Island prior to 1767, and some of them often, ever discovered this harbour. The actual discoverer was Joseph Stephens, commanding the Success, a small vessel employed in the whale fishery. Two years later Stephens was given the command of the Charlotte, a fine brig of 100 tons, his mate then being Samuel Hearne, the explorer.