(signed) ANTONIO VAN DIEMEN
[* Vis. together with the Instructions of Febr. 19 for Pool's expedition to the Southland; see infra.]
[** To wit, with a view to the voyage just referred to.]
C.
Instructions for Pool, Febr. 19, 1636.
...Failing ulterior instructions, we desire you to sail as quickly as possible from Banda to Arnhems and Speultsland, situated between 9 and 13 degrees Southern Latitude, discovered A.D., 1623, as you may further see from the annexed chart [*]...
[* This, then, is the chart of the "coasts made A.D. 1623 by the yachts Pera and Arnhem"; for the "small map" handed to Pool, in the second place referred to in the above letter of Febr. 19, 1636, refers to surveyings of the west-coast of Australia by ships going from the Netherlands to India, and can therefore have nothing to do with the expedition of 1623. Arnhems- and Van Speults Land were accordingly discovered on the voyage of the Pera and the Arnhem. Now the journal of the Pera shows that she did not discover them, so that we are led to the conclusion that Arnhems- and Van Speults Land were discovered by the ship Arnhem.]
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D.
Letter from the Governor-General and Councillors to the Managers of the E.I.C., December 28, 1636.