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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.Major, Richard Henry

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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Name: Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.
Author: Major, Richard Henry

Major, Richard Henry

Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels

which immediately afterwards is said by the Apostle: “Bonum certamen
certavi, cursum consummavi, fidem servavi; in reliquo reposita est mihi
corona justitiæ, quam reddet mihi Dominus in illa die justus judex, non
solum autem mihi, sed his qui diligunt adventum ejus.” I have fought the
good fight gloriously, overcoming the greater power of Lucifer,
liberating from his tyrannical and abominable servitude so great a
number of millions of souls in the southern hemisphere, which would have
been lost and would have lost the Redeemer, who laid upon me the charge
of this great and heroic deed; I have finished most faithfully my
course; I have kept His faith pure in this Catholic seminary of my
kingdom, and have transplanted it with the same purity into the hearts
of the infinite number of gentiles which dwell in that spacious fold;
and thus may I justly hope from the hand of the King Eternal, in the
great day of the universal account, the glorious and blessed crown of
righteousness (which the Apostle hoped for himself) from having rendered
this service, the most acceptable which any king or prince of the world
shall have rendered to the Divine Majesty. The same Apostle afterwards
goes on to say, that not only would it be given to him, but to all those
that love the coming of the just Judge, which are those who hold in such
account the fulfilment of their obligations, and especially of so
heavenly an one as this, that they may justly hope for the reward of
that unspeakably glorious crown. Your Majesty may also entertain a like
security of hope that, if the present proposition and prayer be accepted
and undertaken with the earnest promptitude which, as has been shown, is
enjoined upon you, there will be added to your present enjoyment of
these Catholic kingdoms, and of the other possessions of your monarchy,
every possible exaltation and aggrandisement, which is the most
affectionate desire of Your Majesty’s faithful subjects and servants.




 RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES, CONCERNING THE DISCOVERIES OF QUIROS,
            AS HIS ALMIRANTE. DATED MANILA, JULY 12th, 1607.
  A TRANSLATION, NEARLY LITERAL, BY ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE, ESQ., FROM A
               SPANISH MANUSCRIPT COPY IN HIS POSSESSION.


 [First printed in Burney’s _Discoveries in the South Sea_. Part 2, p.
                        467. London, 1806. 4to.]

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History

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Major, Richard Henry

Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels

which immediately afterwards is said by the Apostle: “Bonum certamen
certavi, cursum consummavi, fidem servavi; in reliquo reposita est mihi
corona justitiæ, quam reddet mihi Dominus in illa die justus judex, non
solum autem mihi, sed his qui diligunt adventum ejus.” I have fought the
good fight gloriously, overcoming the greater power of Lucifer,
liberating from his tyrannical and abominable servitude so great a
number of millions of souls in the southern hemisphere, which would have
been lost and would have lost the Redeemer, who laid upon me the charge
of this great and heroic deed; I have finished most faithfully my
course; I have kept His faith pure in this Catholic seminary of my
kingdom, and have transplanted it with the same purity into the hearts
of the infinite number of gentiles which dwell in that spacious fold;
and thus may I justly hope from the hand of the King Eternal, in the
great day of the universal account, the glorious and blessed crown of
righteousness (which the Apostle hoped for himself) from having rendered
this service, the most acceptable which any king or prince of the world
shall have rendered to the Divine Majesty. The same Apostle afterwards
goes on to say, that not only would it be given to him, but to all those
that love the coming of the just Judge, which are those who hold in such
account the fulfilment of their obligations, and especially of so
heavenly an one as this, that they may justly hope for the reward of
that unspeakably glorious crown. Your Majesty may also entertain a like
security of hope that, if the present proposition and prayer be accepted
and undertaken with the earnest promptitude which, as has been shown, is
enjoined upon you, there will be added to your present enjoyment of
these Catholic kingdoms, and of the other possessions of your monarchy,
every possible exaltation and aggrandisement, which is the most
affectionate desire of Your Majesty’s faithful subjects and servants.




 RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES, CONCERNING THE DISCOVERIES OF QUIROS,
            AS HIS ALMIRANTE. DATED MANILA, JULY 12th, 1607.
  A TRANSLATION, NEARLY LITERAL, BY ALEXANDER DALRYMPLE, ESQ., FROM A
               SPANISH MANUSCRIPT COPY IN HIS POSSESSION.


 [First printed in Burney’s _Discoveries in the South Sea_. Part 2, p.
                        467. London, 1806. 4to.]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia:: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

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