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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

Besides the journals, some depositions and other papers of the same kind
have reached us, referring to the loss of anchors, ropes, sails, the
courses and bearings of the ship as recorded on board the _Vossenbosch_,
none of them however of a nature to call for further observation here.
At the same time we cannot omit to mention two papers, written by the
captain of the patsjallang, and entered in the register of Banda, under
the letters D. E., containing brief notes of the ship’s course, the
names of, and dates of departure from, the places visited during the
voyage, together with the currents encountered, which documents could be
forwarded to you, if desired, together with the above-mentioned journals
of the skipper of the _Vossenbosch_, and the captain of the _Waijer_,
and the new maps, should they arrive here from Macassar, since the maps
of the patsjallang have not been drawn up with due regard to the proper
soundings, distances and other requisites, and are, therefore, not to be
depended upon.

Continuing our summary of the voyage, we would observe, that from the
commencement of the exploration of Van Diemen’s land, they noticed at
several points on the strand signs of men, such as smoke and the like.
The first inlet within the north point of that land, which was visited
by them and called the Roseboom’s Bay, runs dead inland, throwing out
several branches on both sides. No fresh water is found here. At that
time they saw no men, but merely some signs of inhabitants. However, on
their leaving the bay, some of the natives were caught sight of, running
away with their children and dogs, as soon as they perceived our
countrymen; and no opportunity was obtained of getting speech of any of
them.

The coast here is level. The names Casuaris and Varckenshoek, were given
to the points E. and W. of this bay; of two other projecting points on
the W. side, which turned out to be islands, one was named the Goede
Hoop, and the other the Kuijle Eijland; they found on the former of them
a little water, but brackish, and in small quantity.

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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

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

Besides the journals, some depositions and other papers of the same kind
have reached us, referring to the loss of anchors, ropes, sails, the
courses and bearings of the ship as recorded on board the _Vossenbosch_,
none of them however of a nature to call for further observation here.
At the same time we cannot omit to mention two papers, written by the
captain of the patsjallang, and entered in the register of Banda, under
the letters D. E., containing brief notes of the ship’s course, the
names of, and dates of departure from, the places visited during the
voyage, together with the currents encountered, which documents could be
forwarded to you, if desired, together with the above-mentioned journals
of the skipper of the _Vossenbosch_, and the captain of the _Waijer_,
and the new maps, should they arrive here from Macassar, since the maps
of the patsjallang have not been drawn up with due regard to the proper
soundings, distances and other requisites, and are, therefore, not to be
depended upon.

Continuing our summary of the voyage, we would observe, that from the
commencement of the exploration of Van Diemen’s land, they noticed at
several points on the strand signs of men, such as smoke and the like.
The first inlet within the north point of that land, which was visited
by them and called the Roseboom’s Bay, runs dead inland, throwing out
several branches on both sides. No fresh water is found here. At that
time they saw no men, but merely some signs of inhabitants. However, on
their leaving the bay, some of the natives were caught sight of, running
away with their children and dogs, as soon as they perceived our
countrymen; and no opportunity was obtained of getting speech of any of
them.

The coast here is level. The names Casuaris and Varckenshoek, were given
to the points E. and W. of this bay; of two other projecting points on
the W. side, which turned out to be islands, one was named the Goede
Hoop, and the other the Kuijle Eijland; they found on the former of them
a little water, but brackish, and in small quantity.

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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