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
Bandeira, Viscount Sa’ de, claim for the discovery of Australia by
Magalhaens, xxii
Barbié de Bocage, notice of a hydrographical atlas of New Holland,
drawn by N. Vallard, xxxv
Barros, on Gomez de Sequeira’s voyage, xlvi
Bass’s Straits, “Baye neufve,” in the old maps, lviii
Batavia, book of dispatches, _v._ Book
Batavia, under Francis Pelsart, wrecked on the coast of New Holland,
59;
a chest with money to be recovered, 50;
remains found 178;
account of the wreck, and in Thevenot, lxxxix;
in Harris, xc
Bay perdue, on the old maps, lvii
Baye neufve, perhaps Bass’s Straits, lviii
Beach _v._ Boeach
Berkenrode, ship, uncertainty about her fate, 183
Bessia river, name given to the second bay after Rooseboom’s Bay, 171
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, supposed discovery of Australia, xviii;
journals lost, xix
Bocage, Barbié de _v._ Barbié
Boeach, misspelt for Lucach or Lochac, xvii
Book of dispatches, from Batavia, extract; instructions for the
expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, 43
Bosphorus (Sepharat), meaning Spain, 10
Botany Bay, originally called Stingray, afterwards from the variety of
plants, Botany Bay; not the Coste des Herbaiges on the early maps,
xxxiv
Bowrey, captain, a copy of Tasman’s map in his handwriting, xcvi
Brak, equipped for the expedition to New Guinea, 47
Breu, Antonio, going to Banda, in 1511, lx
Brosses, de, correcting Prévost’s misstatement on the discovery of
Carpentaria, c
Brazil, discovery by the Portuguese, xxxviii
Buscop, Franchoys, skipper, extract from his journal, on the “Trials,”
187
Cabral, discovery of Brazil, xxxviii
Callemore, point of, on the South Land, 172
Calice, promontory, on the South Land, 172
Cambodia, the Lochac of Marco Polo, xvi
Cano, Sebastian de, one of the commissioners appointed to decide about
the right of possession of the Moluccas, xl
Cape Keer Weer, (turn again), the furthest point of New Guinea reached
by the Duyfhen, lxxx
Cape York, the very large islands, seen by Torres, in 11° S. L., lxxv
Capitana, expedition under Quiros, 31;
crew mutinous, 34;
departs suddenly and treacherously, 38
Carpentaria, discovery falsely attributed to Carpenter, xcix;
misstatement corrected, c;
Dubois on Carpenter, cii
Carpenter, the supposed discoverer of Carpentaria, c
Carstens, Jan, despatched by J. P. Coen with the Pera and Arnhem from
Amboina, murdered by the natives of New Guinea, lxxxvii, 44
Castanheda, narrative of the discovery of New Guinea, xlii
Casuaris, name of the east point in the Roseboom’s Bay, 168
Cecco d’Ascoli, map of, xiv
Ceira, name of New Guinea on the old Portuguese maps; mistake for
Ceram, 97
Ceram Lauers, trade with the natives of New Guinea, 96
Ceramers _v._ Ceram Lauers
Charles V. sells his right to the Moluccas to John II, xli
Chastelijn, Cornelis, account of the discoveries, 165
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