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
ISBN: 9781315578583

doi:10.4324/9781315578583

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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia

ABSTRACT

From Spanish and Dutch sources and relating to Spanish and Dutch enterprises, edited, with an introduction - a separate pamphlet dated 1861 and containing an article by Major on the discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.

DRAECK" ON THE SOUTH LAND, and the expeditions undertaken, both from Batavia and the Cape of Good Hope, in search of the survivors and money and goods which might be found on the wreck, and of the small success which attended them. Extracted from MS. documents at the Hague, and translated from the Dutch -

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DESCRIPTION or THE WEST COAST OP THE SOUTH LAND, by Captain Samuel Volkersen, of the pink " Waeckende Boey," which sailed from Batavia on the 1st of January 1658, and returned on the 19th of April of the same year. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague and translated from the Dutch - - - - -

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EXTRACT TRANSLATED PROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN'S "Noord en Cost Tartarye" - - - -

chapter |9 pages

ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OP CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER on the coast of New Holland, in 1687-88, being an extract from his " New Voyage round the World" -

chapter |11 pages

EXTRACT PROM SLOAN MS., 3236, entitled "The Adventures of William Dampier, with others [1686-87], who left Captain Sherpe in the South Seas, and travaled back over land through the country of Darien*' - - -

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SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OP WILLEM DE VLAMINGH to New Holland in 1696. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague and translated from the Dutch - -

chapter |92 pages

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH LAND, by order of the Dutch East India Company, in the years 1696 and 1697, by the hooker " De Nyptang," the ship " De Geelvink," and the galiot " De Wesel," and the return to Batavia* From MS. Docu- ments at the Hague : translated from the Dutch

Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia

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chapter |30 pages

A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO His CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN, by Dr. Juan Luis Arias, respecting the exploration, colonization, and con- version of the Southern Land, translated from the Spanish original - - - - - -

chapter |12 pages

A translation, nearly literal, by Alexander Dalrymple, Esq , from a Spanish manuscript copy in his possession, reprinted from App. to vol. ii of Burney's " Discoveries in the South Sea" . . . . -

chapter |16 pages

commencing January the 15th, 1644, and ending November the 29th following, reprinted from Dairymple's " Collections Concerning Papua** -

chapter |16 pages

THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PEL- SAST, in the "Batavia," on the coast of New Holland, and his succeeding adventures, translated from Thevenot's "Recueil de Voyages Curieux11 - -

part |2 pages

VOYAGE OP GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOITTH LAND. Translated from Valentyn's " Beschryvinge van Banda"

chapter |12 pages

part |2 pages

DESCRIPTION or THE WEST COAST OP THE SOUTH LAND, by Captain Samuel Volkersen, of the pink " Waeckende Boey," which sailed from Batavia on the 1st of January 1658, and returned on the 19th of April of the same year. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague and translated from the Dutch - - - - -

chapter |8 pages

EXTRACT TRANSLATED PROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN'S "Noord en Cost Tartarye" - - - -

chapter |9 pages

ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OP CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER on the coast of New Holland, in 1687-88, being an extract from his " New Voyage round the World" -

chapter |11 pages

EXTRACT PROM SLOAN MS., 3236, entitled "The Adventures of William Dampier, with others [1686-87], who left Captain Sherpe in the South Seas, and travaled back over land through the country of Darien*' - - -

part |1 pages

SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OP WILLEM DE VLAMINGH to New Holland in 1696. Extracted from MS. Documents at the Hague and translated from the Dutch - -

chapter |92 pages