DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA DESCRIPTION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE FIRST VISIT TO THE EASTERN COAST BASS STRAIT THE _INVESTIGATOR_ ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS AUSTRALIA FELIX (VICTORIA) THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTINENT. I EXPLORATION OF THE EASTERN RIVER SYSTEM THE INTERIOR. II ACROSS THE CONTINENT. SOUTH TO NORTH. I ACROSS THE CONTINENT. SOUTH TO NORTH. II FROM WEST TO EAST. I. ALONG THE BIGHT FROM WEST TO EAST. II. THE INTERIOR PART II GENERAL HISTORY THE FIRST SETTLEMENT EARLY DIFFICULTIES PHILLIP'S RESIGNATION NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS THE IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS THE BLIGH MUTINY THE BEGINNING OF THE WOOL INDUSTRY EMANCIPIST CONTROVERSY WESTERN AUSTRALIA WAKEFIELD'S SCHEME OF COLONIZATION FOUNDATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION OF VICTORIA TRANSPORTATION INDEPENDENCE OF VICTORIA GOLD EFFECTS OF THE GOLD DISCOVERY THE GOLD MINES VICTORIA IN 1854 THE BUSHRANGERS ANTI-TRANSPORTATION MOVEMENT THE LAND QUESTION THE LAND QUESTION IN NEW SOUTH WALES QUEENSLAND PAYMENT OF MEMBERS CRISIS NEW GUINEA THE NATIONAL AUSTRALASIAN CONVENTION, 1891 THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA THE BOER WAR THE GREAT WAR LANDING ON GALLIPOLI WHAT ANZAC MEANS [Illustration: MAP OF AUSTRALIA] A SOURCE BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PART I DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION DISCOVERY OF TASMANIA +Source.+--Tasman's Journal (edited by Heeres), pp. 1, 11-16 The Spaniard Torres was probably the first European to sight Australia (Cape Yorke); but Tasman was the first who consciously discovered the Great South Land. In his search for fresh fields for trade, he came upon Tasmania and New Zealand. Journal or description drawn up by me, ABEL JAN TASMAN, of a Voyage made from the town of Batavia in E. India for the discovery of the unknown Southland, in the year of our Lord 1642, the 14th of August. May God Almighty vouchsafe his Blessing on this work. AMEN. _Note_.--Days reckoned from midnight to midnight. Longitude calculated from meridian of Peak of Teneriffe. _Item the 23rd Nov._--Good weather with a south-easterly wind and a steady breeze; in the morning, we found our rudder broken at top in the tiller hole; we therefore hauled to windward under reduced sail and fitted a cross beam to either side. By estimation the west side of Nova Guinea must be North of us.