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
Chinese, supposed to have been acquainted with Australia before the
Europeans, xiv
Chucupia, island, 36
Clyn Amsterdam, expedition to New Guinea, 46
Coen, Jan Pietersz, dispatches the Pera and Arnhem, lxxxvii
Collaert, Gerrit, captain of the Nijptang, 113
Cook, captain Dalrymple’s insinuations, xxxi:
established the separation between New Holland and New Guinea, xciv
Cornelis, Jerome, super cargo of the Batavia, conspiracy, 69;
taken prisoner, 71;
executed, 74
Côte dangereuse, in the old maps, xxxii, lvii
Côte des Herbaiges, in the old maps, xxxiv, lviii
Crawford, Pako, _v._ Pako
Crignon, Pierre, on Parmentier, lix, lxii
Dalrymple, Alexander, on Thevenot’s map, xxxi;
translation of Torres relation of Quiros’ discoveries, 31
Dangerous coast, so called by Captain Cook, supposed to be the Côte
dangereuse of the maps, xxxii, lvii
Dampier’s voyage, cviii, cix, 99, 108, 134
De Brosses, _v._ Brosses
De Breu, Antonio, _v._ Breu
De Bandeira, Sa’, Viscount, _v._ Bandeira
De Gonneville, B. Paulmier, _v._ Gonneville
De Legaspi, Lopez, _v._ Legaspi
Del Espiritu Santo, discovery, 37
Delft Bay, on the coast of New Holland, 172
Delft, Martin van, voyage, cxiii;
extract from his logbook, 167
De Mendana, _v._ Mendana
De Meneses, _v._ Meneses
De Metz, Gauthier, _v._ Metz
De Saavedra, _v._ Saavedra
De Santarem, Vicomte, _v._ Santarem
De Silva, Fray Juan, _v._ Silva
De Sequeira, Gomez, _v._ Sequeira
De Torres, Luis Vaez, _v._ Torres
De Villalobos, Ruy Lopez, _v._ Villalobos
De Vlamingh, _v._ Vlamingh
De Witt’s Land, coasted by the Vianen, lxxxix
Dirk Hartog’s Island, plate, lxxxi
Dirk Hartog’s Roads, lxxxi
Dispatches, Book of, from Batavia, _v._ Book of Dispatches
Doriados, sloop, destined for the expedition to New Holland, disabled,
165
Dourado’s map, xxiii
Draeck, _v._ Vergulde Draeck
Du Bocage, Barbié, _v._ Barbié
Dubois, “Vies des Gouverneurs Généraux,” on Carpentaria, cii
Dutch discoveries on the coast of Australia, lxxvii
Dutch East India Company, charged with exclusiveness, vi;
defended, ix
Dutchmen, two, exposed by Pelsart, to be looked after, 50
Duyfhen, yacht, expedition to New Guinea; first authenticated discovery
of the South Land, lxxix;
discovery of the south and west coast of New Guinea, 43
Dwaers-inden-wegh, island, 68
D’Waijer, sloop, discoveries, 165
Edel, commander of a ship visiting the coast of New Holland; discovery
of Edel’s Land on the west coast, lxxxvi
Eendraght, ship, discoveries, lxxxi, 44;
pole with tin plate of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh, 115
Eendraght, land, 177
Elburgh, flyboat, touches the South Land, 87
Emeloort, galiot, sent in search of the Vergulde Draeck, 80;
separated from the Waeckende Boey, 85
Esquivel, Juan de, assisted by Quiros and his force on one of the
Ternate islands, 41
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