27 do. Latitude 27 2/3 degrees, sailed 28 miles; course held north-east; the wind being south and south-west, I had the top-gallants set. God grant what is best for us. Amen. Course kept North-north-east. 28 do. In the morning we took the sun's azimuth: between 7 and 8 degrees to northward, the rise being 16 degrees. We sighted land, being the Southland, at 10 miles' distance. We found a strong current here, with a depth Of 40 fathom. The current set to eastward or straight against the land. In the evening we shaped our course to North-west. 29 do. Latitude slightly under 26°. the weather was calm, so that we ran along the coast, North and at times North-north-west. In the evening I saw the endmost (?) land north-east of me; the wind blowing from the south. 30 do. In the morning I took the sun's azimuth: between 9 and 10 degrees to northward, the rise being 16Ω degrees, remains 7Ω degrees. At noon Latitude 24° 47'. Course held North by west, with a southerly wind; sailed 18 miles; in the evening it fell calm... * * * * * {Page 51} XVIII. (1627) DISCOVERY OF THE SOUTH-WEST COAST OF AUSTRALIA BY THE SHIP HET GULDEN ZEEPAARD, COMMANDED BY PIETER NUIJTS, MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF INDIA, AND BY SKIPPER FRAN«OIS THIJSSEN OR THIJSZOON. A. _Dail Register of what has happened here at Batavia from the first of January, 1627 [*]._ [* On p. 307 of my edition of the Daily Register of 1624-1629.] ...On the 10th [of April] there arrived here from the Netherlands the ship t' Gulden Seepaart fitted out by the Zealand Chamber [*], having on board the Hon. Pieter Nuyts, extraordinary Councillor of India, having sailed from there on the 22nd of May, 1626... [* The Register of outgoing vessels of the E.I.C. shows that the skipper's name was François Thijssen or Thijszoon.] B. _Hessel Gerritsz-Huydecoper Chart (No. 5.--VII D)._ This chart has 't land van Pieter Nuijts (discovered January 26 [*], 1627) and the islands of Sint François and Sint Pieter. [* Some of the charts have February, but most of them January. This month is also mentioned as the time of the discovery in the instructions for Pool (1636, see _infra_) and for Tasman (1644). Cf. my Life of Tasman, pp. 97f.] * * * * * XIX. (1627) VOYAGE OF THE SHIPS GALIAS, UTRECHT AND TEXEL, COMMANDED BY GOVERNOR-GENERAL JAN PIETERSZOON COEN. FURTHER DISCOVERY OF THE WEST-COAST OF AUSTRALIA. A. _Letter of Jan Pieterszoon Coen to the Directors of the E.I.C._ Most Noble Wise Provident Very Discreet Gentlemen,