it is possible that the island was sometimes used as an open prison for criminal mariners, although there is only one documented case of such an exile, a dutch ship's officer, leendert hasenbosch, set ashore at clarence bay as a punishment for sodomy in may 1725. british mariners found the dutchman's tent, belongings and diary in january 1726; the man's remains were not found. his diary was published in translation in london later that same year, under the title "sodomy punish'd".