1693. `Nouveau Voyage de la Terre Australe, contenant les Coutumes et les Moeurs des Australiens, etc.' Par Jaques Sadeur [Gabriel de Foigny].
[This is a work of fiction, but interesting as being the first book in which the word <i>Australiens</i> is used. The next quotation is from the English translation.]
1693. `New Discovery, Terra Incognita Australis,' p. 163
(`O.E.D.'):
"It is easy to judge of the incomparability of the Australians with the people of Europe."
1766. Callander, `Terra Australis' (Translation of De Brosses), c. ii. p. 280:
"One of the Australians, or natives of the Southern World, whom Gonneville had brought into France."
<i>Quotations for "Australia</i>"
1793. G. Shaw and I. E. Smith, `Zoology and Botany of New Holland,' p. 2:
"The vast Island or rather Continent of Australia, Australasia, or New Holland, which has so lately attracted the particular attention of European navigators and naturalists, seems to abound in scenes of peculiar wildness and sterility; while the wretched natives of many of those dreary districts seem less elevated above the inferior animals than in any other part of the known world; Caffraria itself not excepted; as well as less indued with the power of promoting a comfortable existence by an approach towards useful arts and industry. It is in these savage regions however that Nature seems to have poured forth many of her most highly ornamented products with unusual liberality."
1814. M. Flinders, `Voyage to Terra Australis,' Introduction, p. iii. and footnote: