 However, the inverse may be true.The French cartographer Bellin, on his 1743 map "Carte de l'Isle de Terre-Neuve" has .It would appear therefore that the actual sequence may have been from "Baie du Désespoir" to the English literal translation "Bay Despair", which appears as early as 1733 on a Henry Popple map, and then to a French corruption of this, namely "Baie d'Espoir"!