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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

“Now with respect to America: if we examine carefully the list of
  names upon this line of coast, we shall find some that have a
  resemblance to those on the coast of America, along which Magelhaens
  pursued his course. One of these, C. de las Virgines, is found in
  some maps just at the entrance of the Straits of Magellan, on the
  eastern side. I do not see any name like Fromose,[4] but there is
  the name Gaia Fromosa, in or near the Straits of Magellan (in the
  same atlas). In the enclosed list of names we have also Terra de
  Gigätes or Terra de Gigantes, and may not this be the Patagonians?

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  “On a closer and more minute examination of Dourado’s map, and
  others, I think it may now be made evident that the coast said to
  have been discovered by Magalhaéns, in 1520, and mistaken by Sa de
  Bandeira and others, for part of the coast of New Holland, is no
  other than the northern coast of New Guinea.

  “Now New Guinea, or part of it, as laid down by Dourado, appears
  under the name of Os Papuos, and extends to the eastward as far as
  the scale of latitude is marked, but beyond that scale there is
  about half an inch of space, and there the coast in question
  commences, and runs a long way towards the east, with a little
  southing, and has many islands bordering upon it; whether this be
  either a continuation or a repetition more extended of Papua, it is
  much in the same latitude, and runs in the same direction. Again, on
  referring to an old map of Mercator, I found some names upon New
  Guinea, similar to those on the coast in question; there I found C.
  de las Virgines; I. de los Cresbos; R. de Bolcados; Buen Puerto,
  answering to C. de las Virgines; I. de los Crespos: Bullcones Puerto
  Bueno, as found among the names on the coast in question; but what
  places the matter still more beyond a doubt is, that the names in
  both run in the same consecutive order from west to east, upon
  several of the islands which border the main land.

 Names of Islands as laid down in    Names of Islands as laid down in
 Dourado’s map along the coast said  Mercator’s map on the coast of New
 to be New Holland, in consecutive   Guinea, in consecutive order from
 order from W. to E.                 W. to E.

 I. de los Martiles                  Y. de los Martyres
 I. dellos Crespos                   Y. de Crespos
 I. Duarati                          Y. Dearti
 I. de Armo                          No such name
 I. de Malagrate                     Y. de Malagente
 I. Dombres brancos                  Y. de Hombres brancos
 Llabasbuda                          La barbade
 Llacuimana                          No such name
 Bullcones (is laid down on the main Los Bulcones.
   land)

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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