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
Keer Weer, Cape, (turn again), furthest point reached on New Guinea, by
the Duyfhen in 1606, 44
Kondur, island, described by Marco Polo, xv
Kuijle Eijland, projecting point on the west side of New Holland, 168
Lacca-iha, New Guinea, particularly ugly people, 97
Lants Welvaren, carries drawings, etc., from the expedition of
Vlamingh, to the directors of the council, 113
Leeman, Abraham van Santwigh, upper steersman of the Vergulde Draeck,
82:
journal, 87
Leeuwin, ship, discovery, lxxxvi
Legaspi, Miguel Lopez de, established a Spanish colony at Zebu, lxx
Le Testu, Guillaume, map, xxxvi
Leupe, P. A., description of the Houtman’s Abrolhos in 1727, 176
Lima, track to Chili, discovered by J. Fernandez, 20
Limmen, yacht, destined for a nearer discovery of New Guinea, 43;
equipped for the expedition, 47
Lochac, described by Marco Polo, xv
Londe of Java, _v._ Jave
Lonton, promontory on the fifth inlet on the E. coast of New Holland,
visited by the Vossenbosch etc., in 1705, 172
Lopez de Legaspi, _v._ Legaspi
Lopez de Villalobos, Ruy, _v._ Villalobos
Lord North’s island, the island on which Sequeira was driven, xlviii;
description of the natives, xlii, xlix, l
Louisiade, Torres touching at, lxxiv;
description of the inhabitants, lxxv
Louwerens, Captain of the Jacobus, sees the Trials, 188
Lucach, _v._ Lochac
Luchtenberg, wreck on the Wielingen, 182
Macrobius, map of the world, tenth century, xiv
Magalhaens, Fernando, not the discoverer of Australia, xxi;
offers his services to Spain, sails in search of the Moluccas, xxxix
Magellan, F. _v._ Magalhaens
Malaiur, island, supposed to be the kingdom of the Malays, xvi
Maleto, _v._ Maletur
Maletur, misspelt for Maleto, xvii;
occurs on maps of the sixteenth century on or near the Terra
Australis, lxiv, 98
Manilius, mentions the southern continent, xii
Marco Polo, map, xiv;
account, supposed to refer to Australia, xv
Mare Lantchidol, misspelt for Laut Kìdol, or Chidol, “South Sea,” xvii
Maria, Santa, island, _v._ Santa Maria
Maria’s Land, point at the Delft Bay; inhabitants very stupid, 172
Martin, Dr., on the map of Dourado, xxiii
Martinez, Joan, Portolano, lxiii
Matanza island, discovered by Torres, 35
Mauritius, ship, discoveries, lxxxvi;
met by the expedition to New Guinea in 1622, 44
Meerlust, ship, 183
Mendaña de Meyra, Alvaro de, discoveries of New Guadalcanal, San
Christobal, etc., 17
Meneses, Jorge de, carried to New Guinea, lxiv
Mercator, Indications of Australia, lxvii
Metz, Frederic, refutes Dalrymple’s insinuations against Cook, xxxi
Metz, Gauthier de, _v._ Gauthier
Meyenberg, ship, brings the cargo of the Middenrack and Stabroeck over
to Batavia, 183
Mibais van Luyck, Gilles, first merchant of the Eendraght, lxxxi
Middenrack, wrecks against the Table Bay, 182
Milk-Sea, between Banda and the South Land, 97
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