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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

dito t’ zeijl gegaen na Bantam, den Ondercoopman Jan Stoyn,
Opperstiermann Pieter Dockes van Bil Aº. 1616._ Of which the following
is a translation: _On the 25th of October, 1616, arrived here the ship
Endraght, of Amsterdam: the first merchant, Gilles Mibais Van Luyck;
Captain Dirck Hartog, of Amsterdam; the 27th ditto set sail for Bantam;
undermerchant, Jan Stoyn; upper steersman, Pieter Dockes, from Bil. Aº.
1616._

In 1697, this plate was found by Wilhem Van Vlaming, Captain of the
_Geelvink_, of whose voyage we shall have to speak in due course, and
was replaced by another on which the inscription was copied, and the
following new inscription added:

_1697. den 4 den Februarij is hier aengecomen het schip de Geelvinck van
Amsterdam, den commandeur schipper Williem de Vlamingh van Vlielandt:
Adsistent Joan van Bremen van Coppenhage; Opperstierman Michiel Blom van
Estight van Bremen._

_De Hoecker de Nijptang, schipper Gerrit Collaert van Amsterdam;
Adsistent Theodorus Heermans van d^o.; d’opper-stierman Gerrit Gerritz
van Bremen._

_’t Galjoot t’ Weseltje, Gezaghebber Cornelis de Vlamigh van Vlielandt;
stierman Coert Gerritsz van Bremen, en van hier gezeilt met ons vloot
den 12 d^o. voorts het Zuijtlandt te ondersoecken en gedestineert voor
Batavia._ [Illustration]

Of which the following is a translation: _On the 4th of February, 1697,
arrived here the ship Geelvinck, of Amsterdam: captain commandant,
Wilhelm 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._

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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

dito t’ zeijl gegaen na Bantam, den Ondercoopman Jan Stoyn,
Opperstiermann Pieter Dockes van Bil Aº. 1616._ Of which the following
is a translation: _On the 25th of October, 1616, arrived here the ship
Endraght, of Amsterdam: the first merchant, Gilles Mibais Van Luyck;
Captain Dirck Hartog, of Amsterdam; the 27th ditto set sail for Bantam;
undermerchant, Jan Stoyn; upper steersman, Pieter Dockes, from Bil. Aº.
1616._

In 1697, this plate was found by Wilhem Van Vlaming, Captain of the
_Geelvink_, of whose voyage we shall have to speak in due course, and
was replaced by another on which the inscription was copied, and the
following new inscription added:

_1697. den 4 den Februarij is hier aengecomen het schip de Geelvinck van
Amsterdam, den commandeur schipper Williem de Vlamingh van Vlielandt:
Adsistent Joan van Bremen van Coppenhage; Opperstierman Michiel Blom van
Estight van Bremen._

_De Hoecker de Nijptang, schipper Gerrit Collaert van Amsterdam;
Adsistent Theodorus Heermans van d^o.; d’opper-stierman Gerrit Gerritz
van Bremen._

_’t Galjoot t’ Weseltje, Gezaghebber Cornelis de Vlamigh van Vlielandt;
stierman Coert Gerritsz van Bremen, en van hier gezeilt met ons vloot
den 12 d^o. voorts het Zuijtlandt te ondersoecken en gedestineert voor
Batavia._ [Illustration]

Of which the following is a translation: _On the 4th of February, 1697,
arrived here the ship Geelvinck, of Amsterdam: captain commandant,
Wilhelm 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._

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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