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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

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Major, Richard Henry

Major, Richard Henry

Australia -- Discovery and exploration; Discoveries in geography -- Portuguese; Voyages and travels

Pool, Gerrit Tomaz, expedition to New Guinea, killed by the natives,
    xcii, 46

 Portuguese, conceal their discoveries, v, xlii;
   discover Brazil, xxxviii;
   their claim to the discovery of Australia, xxi, xxvi seqq.;
   had establishments in the East Indian Islands before 1529, lxi

 Portuguese kings, prohibit the exportation of marine charts, v, vi

 Portuguese names on the old French maps of New Holland, lix

 Pronck, Hendrich, opinion on the expedition to New Holland, 117

 Purry, J. P. Mémoire sur le Pays des Caffres, etc.; project of founding
    a colony in Nuyts-land, cxv

 Quiros, Pedro Fernandez, chief pilot of Alvaro de Mendana, lxx;
   memoirs to L. de Velasco, lxxi;
   his Terra Australis is New Hebrides, lxxii;
   separated from the other two ships, reaches Mexico, lxxiv;
   addresses Philip II on account of further explorations, lxxvi;
   discoveries, 18;
   death, lxxvi, 19

 Ramusio, on the secrecy of the Portuguese with respect to their
    discoveries, v

 Ridderschap van Holland, de, loss of, causes Vlamingh’s expedition in
    1696, 112, 114

 Rivière de beaucoup d’Iles, xxxii, lvii

 Roebuck, Dampier’s expedition, cx

 Roelandszoon, J. van Wijck, repudiates the charge of covetousness
    against the Dutch, vii

 Roggeveen, expedition, cxvi

 Roggeween, Jakob, passenger of the Vaderland Getrouw, 187

 Roseboom, Andries, of the Waijer, logbook, 167

 Roseboom’s Bay, visited by the Vossenbosch, etc., 168

 Rosemary Island, recently examined by Captain King, cxi;
   name given by Dampier, 154

 Rotterdam, ship, searched after, 44

 Roty, Jean, _v._ Rotz

 Rotz, Jean, maps, xxix

 Rustenburg, point at the fourth inlet on the coast of New Holland,
    visited by the expedition in 1705, 172

 Saavedra, Don Alvaro de, lights on New Guinea, lxiv

 Sadeur, Jacques (or Nicolas), “Avantures dans la découverte de la Terre
    Australe,” cvi

 Sago, biscuits made of, sold to the crew of Torres by Mahometans, 40

 Sahul Bank, seen by P. Heywood, cxiv

 Sambava, occurs on all the MS. maps of the Great Java, liv

 San Christobal island, discovered, 17

 Sandy Bay, 162

 San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern
    continent, 23;
   discovered, 37

 Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de Meyra, 18

 Santa Maria, discovered and named by Torres, 37

 Santa Polonia, island, 32

 Santarem, Vicomte de, “Essai sur l’histoire de la Cosmographie ... du
    Moyen Age,” xiii

 San Valerio, island, 32

 Sardam, frigate, 71

 Schildpads island, 172

 Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, 75;
   killed by the Southlanders, 76

 Sea snakes seen by Dampier, 151

 Sea, turning white, twice a-year, between Banda and the South Land, 97

 Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, xlvi

 Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, 95

 Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, lx

 Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, 1;
   extract, 2

 Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186

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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

Pool, Gerrit Tomaz, expedition to New Guinea, killed by the natives,
    xcii, 46

 Portuguese, conceal their discoveries, v, xlii;
   discover Brazil, xxxviii;
   their claim to the discovery of Australia, xxi, xxvi seqq.;
   had establishments in the East Indian Islands before 1529, lxi

 Portuguese kings, prohibit the exportation of marine charts, v, vi

 Portuguese names on the old French maps of New Holland, lix

 Pronck, Hendrich, opinion on the expedition to New Holland, 117

 Purry, J. P. Mémoire sur le Pays des Caffres, etc.; project of founding
    a colony in Nuyts-land, cxv

 Quiros, Pedro Fernandez, chief pilot of Alvaro de Mendana, lxx;
   memoirs to L. de Velasco, lxxi;
   his Terra Australis is New Hebrides, lxxii;
   separated from the other two ships, reaches Mexico, lxxiv;
   addresses Philip II on account of further explorations, lxxvi;
   discoveries, 18;
   death, lxxvi, 19

 Ramusio, on the secrecy of the Portuguese with respect to their
    discoveries, v

 Ridderschap van Holland, de, loss of, causes Vlamingh’s expedition in
    1696, 112, 114

 Rivière de beaucoup d’Iles, xxxii, lvii

 Roebuck, Dampier’s expedition, cx

 Roelandszoon, J. van Wijck, repudiates the charge of covetousness
    against the Dutch, vii

 Roggeveen, expedition, cxvi

 Roggeween, Jakob, passenger of the Vaderland Getrouw, 187

 Roseboom, Andries, of the Waijer, logbook, 167

 Roseboom’s Bay, visited by the Vossenbosch, etc., 168

 Rosemary Island, recently examined by Captain King, cxi;
   name given by Dampier, 154

 Rotterdam, ship, searched after, 44

 Roty, Jean, _v._ Rotz

 Rotz, Jean, maps, xxix

 Rustenburg, point at the fourth inlet on the coast of New Holland,
    visited by the expedition in 1705, 172

 Saavedra, Don Alvaro de, lights on New Guinea, lxiv

 Sadeur, Jacques (or Nicolas), “Avantures dans la découverte de la Terre
    Australe,” cvi

 Sago, biscuits made of, sold to the crew of Torres by Mahometans, 40

 Sahul Bank, seen by P. Heywood, cxiv

 Sambava, occurs on all the MS. maps of the Great Java, liv

 San Christobal island, discovered, 17

 Sandy Bay, 162

 San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern
    continent, 23;
   discovered, 37

 Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de Meyra, 18

 Santa Maria, discovered and named by Torres, 37

 Santa Polonia, island, 32

 Santarem, Vicomte de, “Essai sur l’histoire de la Cosmographie ... du
    Moyen Age,” xiii

 San Valerio, island, 32

 Sardam, frigate, 71

 Schildpads island, 172

 Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, 75;
   killed by the Southlanders, 76

 Sea snakes seen by Dampier, 151

 Sea, turning white, twice a-year, between Banda and the South Land, 97

 Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, xlvi

 Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, 95

 Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, lx

 Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, 1;
   extract, 2

 Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186

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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.

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.

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