1788.
The monument being soon after destroyed by the natives, Governor Phillip caused the inscription to be engraved on copper, and affixed to a neighbouring tree.

M.De la Peyrouse had paid a similar tribute of respect to the memory of Captain Clerke, at the harbour of St.Peter and Paul in Kamtschatka.
19 March 1788 On the 19th of this month, Lieutenant Ball arrived in the Supply from Norfolk Island.

He had made that island on the 29th of February, but was five days off the coast before a place could be found at which it was possible to land the stores and provisions.

So completely do the rocks surround the island, that it was not easy to find a place even to land a man.

At length, however, they succeeded, having discovered at the south-west end, a small opening in a reef that runs across a bay.