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.
Major, Richard Henry
Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels
Bishop Hall’s “Terra Australis,” lxxxiv;
Zeachen, erroneously described as “the discoverer of Arnheim’s Land”,
lxxxv;
the Land of Edel, lxxxvi;
Houtman’s Abrolhos, _ib._;
Eendraght Land, lxxxvii;
the Pera and Arnhem, _ib._;
the south discovered in 1627 by the Gulde Zeepard, lxxxviii;
De Witt’s Land, lxxxix;
a foul and barren shore, inhabitants wild, black, _ib._;
wreck of the Batavia on the Houtman’s Abrolhos, _ib._;
account of the natives, xci;
G. T. Pool’s, P. Pietersen’s expedition, xciii;
A. J. Tasman’s expedition and instructions, _ib._;
narrative missing, xciv;
outline of Tasman’s voyage inlaid in the floor at the Stadhuis at
Amsterdam, xcv;
on maps, cxvi;
fragment of the account in Witsen’s notes, xcviii;
description of the natives, xcix;
Carpentaria not discovered by Carpenter, Van Diemen’s Land not
discovered by Van Diemen, c;
the great south land called New Holland, ciii;
wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, cv;
Waeckende Boey and Emeloort sent to the rescue, description and chart
of the west coast, cvi;
J. Sadeur’s “Terre Australe,” cvii;
W. de Vlamingh’s voyage, cviii;
Dampier’s description of the natives, _ib._;
expedition in the Roebuck, cx;
last Dutch voyage under Martin v. Delft, cxiii;
accounts of the discoveries of the eastern coast entirely wanting
before Cook, cxvii;
name Australia given by Flinders, _ib._;
memorial of Arias to Philip III respecting the exploration of the
Southern Land, 1;
treatise of Fray Juan da Silva, _ib._;
necessity proved from the scripture, obligation from the agreement
with the Catholic Church, 4;
physical proofs of the existence and habitability, 14;
richness in metals and stones, 16;
discoveries already made, 17;
all tends to prove the greatness, populousness, and richness of the
southern continent, 24;
Luis Vaez de Torres on Quiros’ discoveries, 31;
San Valerio, las Virgines, Santa Polonia, 32;
Matanza, skirmish with the natives, 34;
Taomaco, inhabitants white and red, some coloured, others black and
mulattoes, agreeable people, slavery in use amongst them; they
name more than forty islands, 36;
Chucupia islands, _ib._;
Santa Maria island, 37;
possession taken of the Ray San Felipe y Santiago, and the land del
Espirito Santo, _ib._;
people black and naked, _ib._;
departure of the Capitana, 38;
pass an archipelago of islands, 39;
description of the inhabitants, 40;
find Mahometans at the termination of this land, _ib._;
instructions for the new expedition by the yachts Limmen, Zeemeuw,
and Brak under Tasman, 43;
former voyages towards New Guinea and the South Land undertaken for
the Dutch East India Company, 44;
Staten and Van Diemen’s Land found, also the passage to the South
Sea, 47;
Voyage and shipwreck of F. Pelsart in the Batavia, 59;
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