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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

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.

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

a little, the wind shifting between S., S.S.W., and S.S.E., and stood
out towards Batavia, where they arrived on the 27th.

[Illustration:

  ’T LANT VAN EENDRACHT.

  OFT AFBEELDINGE VAN ’T ZUŸTLANDT ONDECKT DOOR
  DEN SCHIPPER AUCKE PIETERS JONCK.
  IN DE MAENDT FEBRUARIO EN MAART Aº 1658, MET EMELOORT.
]

[Illustration:

  ’T LANT VAN EENDRACHT.

  OFT AFBEELDINGE VAN ’T ZUŸTLANDT ONDECKT DOOR
  DEN SCHIPPER SAMUEL VOLCKERTS.
  IN DE MAENDT FEBRUARIO EN MAART Aº. 1658, MET DE WAKENDE BOEY.

  _Kell Bro^s. lith^{rs}. Castle St Holborn._
]

Notwithstanding all this, and although, as the statement of the General
and Council shows, the rescue of these men seemed hopeless, since it was
evident that they must either have perished from hunger and misery, or
been murdered by the barbarous natives; they resolved afterwards, as
there might be still some hope left, however small, to despatch, for a
third time, two galliots, the _Waeckende Boey_ and _Emeloort_, the
former with a crew of forty, the latter of twenty-five men, provisioned
for six months. They set sail from Batavia on the 1st of January, 1658,
with distinct orders both as to how to reach the Southland and as to
their conduct during the voyage: amongst them these; that after passing
the Straits of Sunda they should steer towards the S.W., and as much
further south as the wind would allow, so as to meet the S.E. trade
winds, when they would proceed at once as far southwards as they could
by crowding all sail until the west winds were encountered, when again
they should immediately steer as much south as east, in order that,
without loss of time and before encountering land, they might reach the
latitude of 32° or 33°, when, directing their course eastwards, they
should make the attempt to land at the Southland. It was enjoined that
every possible precaution should be used, as the coast in that quarter
was not much known or properly explored. It was added, that their
arrival would be in summer or the most favourable season of the year;
with other matters, set forth in the instructions given to them by the
General and Council on the last day of December, 1657. On the 19th of
April they returned to Batavia, having each of them separately, after
parting company by the way, sailed backwards and forwards again and
again, and landed parties at several points along the coast. They had
also continually fired signal guns night and day, without, however,
discovering either any Dutchmen or the wreck of the vessel. The only
things seen were some few planks and blocks, with a piece of the mast, a
taffrail, fragments of barrels, and other objects scattered here and
there along the coast, and supposed to be remnants of the wreck. The
crew of the _Emeloort_ also saw at different points five black men of
extremely tall stature, without however daring to land there. Thus of
this expedition again the only result was, that the crew of the
_Waeckende Boey_ abandoned a boat with fourteen of their comrades,

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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

a little, the wind shifting between S., S.S.W., and S.S.E., and stood
out towards Batavia, where they arrived on the 27th.

[Illustration:

  ’T LANT VAN EENDRACHT.

  OFT AFBEELDINGE VAN ’T ZUŸTLANDT ONDECKT DOOR
  DEN SCHIPPER AUCKE PIETERS JONCK.
  IN DE MAENDT FEBRUARIO EN MAART Aº 1658, MET EMELOORT.
]

[Illustration:

  ’T LANT VAN EENDRACHT.

  OFT AFBEELDINGE VAN ’T ZUŸTLANDT ONDECKT DOOR
  DEN SCHIPPER SAMUEL VOLCKERTS.
  IN DE MAENDT FEBRUARIO EN MAART Aº. 1658, MET DE WAKENDE BOEY.

  _Kell Bro^s. lith^{rs}. Castle St Holborn._
]

Notwithstanding all this, and although, as the statement of the General
and Council shows, the rescue of these men seemed hopeless, since it was
evident that they must either have perished from hunger and misery, or
been murdered by the barbarous natives; they resolved afterwards, as
there might be still some hope left, however small, to despatch, for a
third time, two galliots, the _Waeckende Boey_ and _Emeloort_, the
former with a crew of forty, the latter of twenty-five men, provisioned
for six months. They set sail from Batavia on the 1st of January, 1658,
with distinct orders both as to how to reach the Southland and as to
their conduct during the voyage: amongst them these; that after passing
the Straits of Sunda they should steer towards the S.W., and as much
further south as the wind would allow, so as to meet the S.E. trade
winds, when they would proceed at once as far southwards as they could
by crowding all sail until the west winds were encountered, when again
they should immediately steer as much south as east, in order that,
without loss of time and before encountering land, they might reach the
latitude of 32° or 33°, when, directing their course eastwards, they
should make the attempt to land at the Southland. It was enjoined that
every possible precaution should be used, as the coast in that quarter
was not much known or properly explored. It was added, that their
arrival would be in summer or the most favourable season of the year;
with other matters, set forth in the instructions given to them by the
General and Council on the last day of December, 1657. On the 19th of
April they returned to Batavia, having each of them separately, after
parting company by the way, sailed backwards and forwards again and
again, and landed parties at several points along the coast. They had
also continually fired signal guns night and day, without, however,
discovering either any Dutchmen or the wreck of the vessel. The only
things seen were some few planks and blocks, with a piece of the mast, a
taffrail, fragments of barrels, and other objects scattered here and
there along the coast, and supposed to be remnants of the wreck. The
crew of the _Emeloort_ also saw at different points five black men of
extremely tall stature, without however daring to land there. Thus of
this expedition again the only result was, that the crew of the
_Waeckende Boey_ abandoned a boat with fourteen of their comrades,

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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