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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

See Aratus, Phœnom., 537; Strabo, l. 7, p. 130, and l. 17; Crates apud
  Geminum, Elementa Astronomica, c. lxiii, in the Uranologia, p. 31.

Footnote 4:

    This apparently Gallicized Portuguese name is here referred to by
    Dr. Martin in allusion to its occurrence on certain early French
    maps to be treated of hereafter.

Footnote 5:

    Since the reading of this memoir at the Institute, M. Correa da
    Serra, to whom I had previously read it, has had the goodness to
    inform me of some researches which he has made upon this subject.
    He discovered that Don Miguel de Sylva left the kingdom of
    Portugal in 1542, that he only arrived in Italy in 1543 to receive
    the cardinal’s hat, and he thinks that he could only have reached
    that country by passing through France, where he had formerly
    studied, and that he doubtless there left the originals from which
    our charts were copied.

Footnote 6:

    This name, from the Dutch form which it bears, might suggest the
    idea that the visitor was a Dutchman; but it must be remembered
    that the Dutch were not in those seas till the end of the
    sixteenth century, and that the Synod of Dort was held in the
    years 1618 and 1619, which renders the suggestion at the close of
    the paragraph as to “the images to represent their divinity”
    unreasonable as coming from a native of that country. It is more
    probable that, from the lapse of time, a mistake was made in the
    repetition of the name by a savage, and that a Portuguese, and not
    a Dutchman, suggested the use of images to represent a divinity.

Footnote 7:

  For the account of this voyage see a letter from Quiros to Don Antonio
  de Morga, cap. vi, p. 29, of De Morga’s _Sucesos en las Islas
  Filipinas_, Mexico, 1609, 4to.; and Figueroa’s _Hechos de Don Garcia
  Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto Marques de Cañete_, Madrid, 1613, 4to., l.
  6, p. 238.

Footnote 8:

  In the collective volume in the British Museum which contains the
  original of the present memorial, are several memorials to the king
  from the Fray Juan de Silva, advocating the same cause on general
  religious and political grounds; but the editor has been unable to
  find the treatise here referred to as dedicated to the Infant Don
  Ferdinand, nor is any mention made of it by Nicolas Antonio or Leon
  Pinelo, both of whom speak of the memorials addressed to the king.

Footnote 9:

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History

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

See Aratus, Phœnom., 537; Strabo, l. 7, p. 130, and l. 17; Crates apud
  Geminum, Elementa Astronomica, c. lxiii, in the Uranologia, p. 31.

Footnote 4:

    This apparently Gallicized Portuguese name is here referred to by
    Dr. Martin in allusion to its occurrence on certain early French
    maps to be treated of hereafter.

Footnote 5:

    Since the reading of this memoir at the Institute, M. Correa da
    Serra, to whom I had previously read it, has had the goodness to
    inform me of some researches which he has made upon this subject.
    He discovered that Don Miguel de Sylva left the kingdom of
    Portugal in 1542, that he only arrived in Italy in 1543 to receive
    the cardinal’s hat, and he thinks that he could only have reached
    that country by passing through France, where he had formerly
    studied, and that he doubtless there left the originals from which
    our charts were copied.

Footnote 6:

    This name, from the Dutch form which it bears, might suggest the
    idea that the visitor was a Dutchman; but it must be remembered
    that the Dutch were not in those seas till the end of the
    sixteenth century, and that the Synod of Dort was held in the
    years 1618 and 1619, which renders the suggestion at the close of
    the paragraph as to “the images to represent their divinity”
    unreasonable as coming from a native of that country. It is more
    probable that, from the lapse of time, a mistake was made in the
    repetition of the name by a savage, and that a Portuguese, and not
    a Dutchman, suggested the use of images to represent a divinity.

Footnote 7:

  For the account of this voyage see a letter from Quiros to Don Antonio
  de Morga, cap. vi, p. 29, of De Morga’s _Sucesos en las Islas
  Filipinas_, Mexico, 1609, 4to.; and Figueroa’s _Hechos de Don Garcia
  Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto Marques de Cañete_, Madrid, 1613, 4to., l.
  6, p. 238.

Footnote 8:

  In the collective volume in the British Museum which contains the
  original of the present memorial, are several memorials to the king
  from the Fray Juan de Silva, advocating the same cause on general
  religious and political grounds; but the editor has been unable to
  find the treatise here referred to as dedicated to the Infant Don
  Ferdinand, nor is any mention made of it by Nicolas Antonio or Leon
  Pinelo, both of whom speak of the memorials addressed to the king.

Footnote 9:

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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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