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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

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.

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

From another extract from these MS. logbooks at the Hague, which was
  made at the editor’s request, there was an additional observation of
  importance which is here omitted. Three times Captain Jonck speaks of
  a southern current running along the coast, which struck his attention
  in these seas. Among other passages he speaks of it in these terms:
  “We had deviated from our course fifteen minutes to the south, and
  this we attributed to a southern current, which we have observed
  several times on this coast, which is a strange thing, the being drawn
  by the current in spite of the wind and the waves.” Elsewhere he
  estimates the force of this current at ten miles in the twenty-four
  hours.

Footnote 24:

  In another place Witsen says this happened in 1658, and that eighty
  persons were so left behind, evidently from the crew of the _Waeckende
  Boey_, see _ante_, p. 81.

Footnote 25:

  So in the Dutch. The editor has been unable to identify this plant.

Footnote 26:

  Clearly a mistake. The word means Ceram.

Footnote 27:

  Nicobar. The circumstance of their canoe upsetting off this island,
  and their books and drafts being all wetted and some of them lost, is
  also mentioned in the printed editions of Dampier’s voyage.

Footnote 28:

  This exceedingly scarce printed narrative, which had been zealously
  sought for by the editor for several years, and had eluded the search
  of previous writers, reached his hands at the very critical moment to
  admit of its being translated and inserted in its proper place in the
  volume, the next in sequence to the present paper. Although of no
  great interest except as an original account of the voyage, it is
  important to know of what it consists, and it is the editor’s grateful
  duty to state that it is solely to the zeal, intelligence, and
  kindness of Mr. Frederick Müller, of Amsterdam, that he is indebted
  for the good fortune of procuring the use of the document.

Footnote 29:

  Appendix I and II.

Footnote 30:

  “Further: ‘1697, February 4th. Arrived here the ship _Geelvinck_, of
  Amsterdam: captain commandant, Wilhem van Vlaming, of Vlielandt;
  assistant, Jan van Bremen, of Copenhagen; first pilot, Michéel Bloem
  van Estight, of Bremen; the hooker the _Nyptangh_: captain Gerrit
  Collaert, of Amsterdam; assistant, Theodorus Heermans, of the same
  place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz, of Bremen; then the galliot
  _Weseltje_: commander, Cornelis van Vlaming, of Vlielandt; pilot,
  Coert Gerritzs, of Bremen. Sailed from here with our fleet on the
  12th, to explore the south land, and afterwards bound for Batavia.’”

Footnote 31:

  This word, which is perhaps misspelt, does not occur in Nemnick’s
  polyglot _Lexicon der Naturgeschichte_.

Footnote 32:

  It has not been deemed necessary for the present purpose to reproduce
  these plates.

Footnote 33:

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

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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

From another extract from these MS. logbooks at the Hague, which was
  made at the editor’s request, there was an additional observation of
  importance which is here omitted. Three times Captain Jonck speaks of
  a southern current running along the coast, which struck his attention
  in these seas. Among other passages he speaks of it in these terms:
  “We had deviated from our course fifteen minutes to the south, and
  this we attributed to a southern current, which we have observed
  several times on this coast, which is a strange thing, the being drawn
  by the current in spite of the wind and the waves.” Elsewhere he
  estimates the force of this current at ten miles in the twenty-four
  hours.

Footnote 24:

  In another place Witsen says this happened in 1658, and that eighty
  persons were so left behind, evidently from the crew of the _Waeckende
  Boey_, see _ante_, p. 81.

Footnote 25:

  So in the Dutch. The editor has been unable to identify this plant.

Footnote 26:

  Clearly a mistake. The word means Ceram.

Footnote 27:

  Nicobar. The circumstance of their canoe upsetting off this island,
  and their books and drafts being all wetted and some of them lost, is
  also mentioned in the printed editions of Dampier’s voyage.

Footnote 28:

  This exceedingly scarce printed narrative, which had been zealously
  sought for by the editor for several years, and had eluded the search
  of previous writers, reached his hands at the very critical moment to
  admit of its being translated and inserted in its proper place in the
  volume, the next in sequence to the present paper. Although of no
  great interest except as an original account of the voyage, it is
  important to know of what it consists, and it is the editor’s grateful
  duty to state that it is solely to the zeal, intelligence, and
  kindness of Mr. Frederick Müller, of Amsterdam, that he is indebted
  for the good fortune of procuring the use of the document.

Footnote 29:

  Appendix I and II.

Footnote 30:

  “Further: ‘1697, February 4th. Arrived here the ship _Geelvinck_, of
  Amsterdam: captain commandant, Wilhem van Vlaming, of Vlielandt;
  assistant, Jan van Bremen, of Copenhagen; first pilot, Michéel Bloem
  van Estight, of Bremen; the hooker the _Nyptangh_: captain Gerrit
  Collaert, of Amsterdam; assistant, Theodorus Heermans, of the same
  place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz, of Bremen; then the galliot
  _Weseltje_: commander, Cornelis van Vlaming, of Vlielandt; pilot,
  Coert Gerritzs, of Bremen. Sailed from here with our fleet on the
  12th, to explore the south land, and afterwards bound for Batavia.’”

Footnote 31:

  This word, which is perhaps misspelt, does not occur in Nemnick’s
  polyglot _Lexicon der Naturgeschichte_.

Footnote 32:

  It has not been deemed necessary for the present purpose to reproduce
  these plates.

Footnote 33:

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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