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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WORKS ISSUED BY
EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS, NOW CALLED AUSTRALIA.
M DCCC.LIX.
Edited, with an Introduction, by
R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.
“Austrinis pars est habitabilis oris,
Sub pedibusque jacet nostris.”
Manilius, Astronomicon , lib. i, lin. 237–8.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY.
Richard Henry Major
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CONTENTS.
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BINDER.
INTRODUCTION.
EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA; COMMENCING JANUARY THE 15TH, 1644, AND ENDING NOVEMBER THE 29TH FOLLOWING.
THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART, IN THE BATAVIA, ON THE COAST OF NEW HOLLAND, AND HIS SUCCEEDING ADVENTURES.
VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND.
EXTRACT TRANSLATED FROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN’S “NOORD EN OOST TARTARYE.”
SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH TO NEW HOLLAND IN 1696.
APPENDIX I.
APPENDIX II.
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II.
APPENDIX III.
APPENDIX IV.
INDEX.
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