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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

A MEMORIAL
   ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN,
                        BY DR. JUAN LUIS ARIAS,
RESPECTING THE EXPLORATION, COLONIZATION, AND CONVERSION OF THE SOUTHERN
                                 LAND.


SIRE,—The memorial of the Doctor Juan Luis Arias showeth: That in
consideration of the great advantage which will accrue to the service of
Your Majesty, to the extension of the Catholic Church, and to the
increase of our holy faith, from the conversion of the gentiles of the
southern land, which is the principal obligation to which Your Majesty
and your crown are pledged, he now earnestly begs (great as have been
his former importunities) to solicit Your Majesty’s consideration to
that which is here set forth. At the instance of the fathers of the
Seraphic order of St. Francis, and in particular of the father Fray Juan
de Silva, he has composed a treatise dedicated to his most serene
highness the Infant Don Ferdinand,[8] from which a judgment may be
formed of the temperature, productions, and population of the southern
hemisphere, and every other point desirable to be understood with
respect to its most extensive provinces and kingdoms. He has done this
with a view to its discovery, and the spiritual and evangelical
conquest, and bringing in to our holy faith and Catholic religion of its
numberless inhabitants, who are so long waiting for this divine and
celestial benefit at the hand of Your Majesty. It is a subject upon
which the father Fray Juan de Silva has bestowed the most serious
attention, and for which he is most anxiously solicitous; for all his
order desire to be engaged in this mighty enterprise, which is one of
the greatest that the Catholic Church ever has or ever can undertake,
and the accomplishment of which it is the duty of all us her faithful
sons to pray should be accelerated as much as possible. For the English
and Dutch heretics, whom the devil unites for this purpose by every
means in his power, most diligently continue the exploration, discovery,
and colonization of the principal ports of this large part of the world
in the Pacific Ocean, and sow in it the most pernicious poisons of their
apostasy, which they put forth with the most pressing anxiety in advance
of us, who should put forth the sovereign light of the gospel. This they
are now perseveringly doing in that great continent in which are the
provinces of Florida, and they will afterwards proceed to do the same
with New Spain, and then with New Mexico, the kingdom of Quivira, the
Californias, and other most extensive provinces. For which purpose, and
for other reasons connected with their machinations against our kingdom,
they have already colonized Virginia. To further the same object also,
they have fortified and colonized Bermuda, and continue most zealously
and rapidly sowing the infernal poison of their heresy, and infecting

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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

A MEMORIAL
   ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN,
                        BY DR. JUAN LUIS ARIAS,
RESPECTING THE EXPLORATION, COLONIZATION, AND CONVERSION OF THE SOUTHERN
                                 LAND.


SIRE,—The memorial of the Doctor Juan Luis Arias showeth: That in
consideration of the great advantage which will accrue to the service of
Your Majesty, to the extension of the Catholic Church, and to the
increase of our holy faith, from the conversion of the gentiles of the
southern land, which is the principal obligation to which Your Majesty
and your crown are pledged, he now earnestly begs (great as have been
his former importunities) to solicit Your Majesty’s consideration to
that which is here set forth. At the instance of the fathers of the
Seraphic order of St. Francis, and in particular of the father Fray Juan
de Silva, he has composed a treatise dedicated to his most serene
highness the Infant Don Ferdinand,[8] from which a judgment may be
formed of the temperature, productions, and population of the southern
hemisphere, and every other point desirable to be understood with
respect to its most extensive provinces and kingdoms. He has done this
with a view to its discovery, and the spiritual and evangelical
conquest, and bringing in to our holy faith and Catholic religion of its
numberless inhabitants, who are so long waiting for this divine and
celestial benefit at the hand of Your Majesty. It is a subject upon
which the father Fray Juan de Silva has bestowed the most serious
attention, and for which he is most anxiously solicitous; for all his
order desire to be engaged in this mighty enterprise, which is one of
the greatest that the Catholic Church ever has or ever can undertake,
and the accomplishment of which it is the duty of all us her faithful
sons to pray should be accelerated as much as possible. For the English
and Dutch heretics, whom the devil unites for this purpose by every
means in his power, most diligently continue the exploration, discovery,
and colonization of the principal ports of this large part of the world
in the Pacific Ocean, and sow in it the most pernicious poisons of their
apostasy, which they put forth with the most pressing anxiety in advance
of us, who should put forth the sovereign light of the gospel. This they
are now perseveringly doing in that great continent in which are the
provinces of Florida, and they will afterwards proceed to do the same
with New Spain, and then with New Mexico, the kingdom of Quivira, the
Californias, and other most extensive provinces. For which purpose, and
for other reasons connected with their machinations against our kingdom,
they have already colonized Virginia. To further the same object also,
they have fortified and colonized Bermuda, and continue most zealously
and rapidly sowing the infernal poison of their heresy, and infecting

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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