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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

You have kindly permitted me to dedicate to you
this result of my investigations respecting the early explorations of
Australia. To none can a book on such a subject be more appropriately
offered than to yourself. To you geographers are pre-eminently indebted
for the promotion of Australian exploration in recent times, while your
ever-memorable scientific anticipation of the discovery of the
Australian gold fields must connect your name inseparably with the
history of a country, whose future greatness can be foreseen, but cannot
be estimated.

                                I remain,
                                    Dear SIR RODERICK,
                                            With much respect,
                                                  Yours very faithfully,
                                                          R. H. MAJOR.

 British Museum,
       August, 1859.

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                               CONTENTS.


 A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING
   OF SPAIN, by Dr. Juan Luis Arias, respecting the exploration,
   colonization, and conversion of the Southern Land, translated
   from the Spanish original                                           1

 RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES, concerning the discoveries of
   QUIROS, as his Almirante. Dated Manila, July 12, 1607. A
   translation, nearly literal, by Alexander Dalrymple, Esq., from a
   Spanish manuscript copy in his possession, reprinted from App. to
   vol. ii of Burney’s “Discoveries in the South Sea”                 31

 EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA; commencing
   January the 15th, 1644, and ending November the 29th following,
   reprinted from Dalrymple’s “Collections Concerning Papua”          43

 THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART, in the
   “Batavia,” on the coast of New Holland, and his succeeding
   adventures, translated from Thevenot’s “Recueil de Voyages
   Curieux”                                                           59

 VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND. Translated from
   Valentyn’s “Beschryvingh van Banda”                                75

 ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “DE VERGULDE DRAECK” ON THE SOUTH
   LAND, and the expeditions undertaken, both from Batavia and the
   Cape of Good Hope, in search of the survivors and money and goods
   which might be found on the wreck, and of the small success which
   attended them. Extracted from MS. documents at the Hague, and
   translated from the Dutch                                          77

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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