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
Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the
line of demarcation, xxxviii
Fernandez, Juan, said to have discovered the southern continent, lxvi;
discovers the track from Lima to Chili, 20
Fish, a remarkable, with a sort of arms and legs, 121
Flinders, Matthew, suggested the name of Australia, lxxviii, xcvii;
on the account of Delft’s voyage, cxv
Fortuyn, perhaps wrecked on the Abrolhos, 182
Four Hollanders’ ships voyage; first voyage of the Dutch to the East
Indies, lv
Franciscan order, undertakes the conversion of the southern hemisphere,
7
Franciscus, Monachus, Mappemonde, lxiii
Frederick Houtman’s Abrolhos, _v._ Houtman’s Abrolhos
French merchants send a ship to the Indies, xix
Geminus, speaks of a southern continent, xiii
Goede Hoop, yacht, joins the Witte Valck for the rescue of the wreck of
the Vergulde Draeck, 78
Gonneville, Binot Paulmier de, the supposed first discoverer of New
Holland, xx
Gouffre in the old maps, perhaps Oyster Bay in Tasmania, lviii
Guanos with apparently two heads, 144
Gulde Zeepard, ship, discovery, 45
Gun island, off the Houtman’s Abrolhos, 179.
Haarlem, wreck of, in Table Bay, 182
Hale, H. on Tobi island, xlviii
Hall, Bishop, Mundus alter and idem, lxxxiv
Hamelin, Captain of the Naturaliste, finds the tin plate of Vlamingh on
Dirk Hartog’s island, lxxxiii
Hammond, Captain of the Antelope, 134
Harewind, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, 44
Haring, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, 44
Hartog, Dirk, discoveries, lxxxi
Hasagays, arms of the natives of New Guinea, 96
Heenhoven, ship, uncertainty about its destiny, 183
Hillegonde, ship, accident, 183
Holden, Horace, driven to the Isle of Tobi, xlix
Hondius, Jodocus, map, to illustrate the discoveries of Drake and
Cavendish, lxviii
Hoop, brigantine, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijk, 186
Houtman, Frederick, gives the name to the Houtman’s Abrolhos, lxxxvi
Houtman’s Abrolhos, discovery, lxxxvi;
the Houtman’s Abrolhos in 1727, by Leupe, 176
Instructions for the expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, 43
Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the
line of demarcation, xxxviii
Jacobus, Dutch ship, sees the Trials, 188
Jan de Bremen, of Pelsart’s crew, confesses to have caused the
assassination of twenty-seven persons, 72
Jave, la Grande, on the old maps, supposed to be Australia, lii
John II, agreement with Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, about the line
of demarcation, xxxviii
John II buys the right to the Moluccas from Charles V, xli
Jonck, Aucke Pietersz, skipper of the Emeloort, account, 82
Judæis, C. de, Speculum Orbis, lxviii
Kangaroo, first described by Dampier, cx
Kart, Pieter _v._ Pita Ka’t
Kaijmans-hoek, eastern point of the third inlet on the coast of New
Holland, visited by the expedition in 1705, 171
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