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.

by Richard Henry Major

• Aagtekerke, perhaps wrecked off the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [182]
• Aberts, Pieter, skipper, one of the survivors of the “Vergulde Draeck,” [77]
• Abrolhos, v. Houtman’s Abrolhos
• Albuquerque, in 1511 sent A. de Breu and F. Serrano, with three ships to Banda and Malacca, [lx]
• Alexander VI, Pope, Bull on the discoveries, [xxxvii]
• Alvaro de Mendana, discovers the Solomon Islands, the Marquesas, Queen Charlotte’s Islands, attempts to establish a Colony on Santa Cruz, [lxx]
• Ambrollossen, Frederic Houtman, v. Houtman’s Abrolhos
• Amsterdam, island, drawing of, brought back by Vlamingh, in 1696, [113]
• Amsterdam, shallop, expedition to the South Land under the command of G. T. Pool, [75]
• Antelope, of London, under the command of Captain Hammond, met by Dampier, [13]
• Ant-hills, taken for habitations, [65]
• Aratus, speaks of a southern continent, [xiii]
• Arias, Dr. Juan Luis, memorial to Philip III, urges the necessity of the discovery of the southern hemisphere, for the sake of converting the natives before the English and Dutch heretics might do it, [1];
  • extract from De Silva’s treatise, [3];
  • prophecies, [4];
  • the southern hemisphere not all water, [12];
  • fertile, habitable, [15];
  • rich in metals, pearls, animals, fruits, [16];
  • A. Mendana de Meyra’s discoveries, [17];
  • P. F. de Quiros, [18];
  • J. Fernandez, [20];
  • Indians of Taumaco indicate a continent southwards, [23];
  • portion of the South Land already visited, larger than Europe, [24];
  • the decline of Spain, caused by the neglect of exploration, [25];
  • final loss of the crown threatened, [28]
• Arms of Amsterdam, ship, touched at the south coast of New Guinea, in 1619, part of the crew murdered by the natives, [44]
• Aristotle, speaks of a southern continent, [xiii]
• Arnhem, island, discovery, [45]
• Arnhem, yacht, voyage to New Guinea, [44];
  • skipper and eight of the crew murdered, [45]
• Atlantis, island of, described by Plato, [ii]
• Aucke, Pietersz Jonck, v. Jonck
• Australia.
  • Regarded as forming part of New Guinea and the great southern continent, [iv]-xi;
  • indications on maps in the sixteenth century, [iv], [xii], [lxv];
  • its coasts touched by the Dutch in the seventeenth, [v];
  • secrecy of the Portuguese, ib.;
  • of the Dutch East India Company vi;
  • statement of Sir W. Temple, ib.;
  • quotations from early writers, [xii];
  • early maps with indications, [xiv];
  • assertion of the discovery by the Chinese, ib.;
  • Binot Paulmier de Gonneville the supposed first discoverer, [xx];
  • the Portuguese claim to the discovery, [xxi];
  • the Spanish claim, [xxii];
  • Magalhaens’ claim, [xxii];
  • Dr. Martin on the map of Dourado, [xxiii];
  • the tract laid down is either Tierra del Fuego or New Guinea, [xxvi];
  • other indications on maps of its discovery by the Portuguese, ib.;
  • Dalrymple’s disparagement of Captain Cook, [xxxi];
  • its refutation by Metz, [xxxii];
  • account, by Barbié de Bocage, of a hydrographic atlas which he supposed to be drawn by N. Vallard, of Dieppe, in 1547, [xxxv];
  • Gomez de Sequeira, [xliii], [xlvi];
  • Barros’ narrative, [xlvi];
  • Sequeira driven to Tobi or Lord North’s Island, [xlviii];
  • account of the island, [xlix];
  • Australia shown to be the country described in those maps, [li];
  • the “Londe of Java,” [lii];
  • P. Crignon on J. Parmentier’s voyage, [lix];
  • the Portuguese, not the French, the real discoverers, [lx];
  • the quoted French maps copied after Parmentier, [lxi];
  • Parmentier’s information derived from the Portuguese, [lxii];
  • the discovery before 1542, [lxiv];
  • explorations by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, [lxx];
  • P. Fernandez de Quiros, [lxx];
  • Australia del Espirito Santo, [lxxiv];
  • first authenticated discovery made by a vessel from Holland in 1606, [lxxviii];
  • the Duyfhen, [lxxix];
  • the Eendraght, under Dirk Hartog, [lxxx];
  • plates on Dirk Hartog’s Island, [lxxxii];
  • Bishop Hall’s “Terra Australis,” [lxxxiv];
  • Zeachen, erroneously described as “the discoverer of Arnheim’s Land”, [lxxxv];
  • the Land of Edel, [lxxxvi];
  • Houtman’s Abrolhos, ib.;
  • Eendraght Land, [lxxxvii];
  • the Pera and Arnhem, ib.;
  • the south discovered in 1627 by the Gulde Zeepard, [lxxxviii];
  • De Witt’s Land, [lxxxix];
  • a foul and barren shore, inhabitants wild, black, ib.;
  • wreck of the Batavia on the Houtman’s Abrolhos, ib.;
  • account of the natives, [xci];
  • G. T. Pool’s, P. Pietersen’s expedition, [xciii];
  • A. J. Tasman’s expedition and instructions, ib.;
  • narrative missing, [xciv];
  • outline of Tasman’s voyage inlaid in the floor at the Stadhuis at Amsterdam, [xcv];
  • on maps, [cxvi];
  • fragment of the account in Witsen’s notes, [xcviii];
  • description of the natives, [xcix];
  • Carpentaria not discovered by Carpenter, Van Diemen’s Land not discovered by Van Diemen, [c];
  • the great south land called New Holland, [ciii];
  • wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, [cv];
  • Waeckende Boey and Emeloort sent to the rescue, description and chart of the west coast, [cvi];
  • J. Sadeur’s “Terre Australe,” [cvii];
  • W. de Vlamingh’s voyage, [cviii];
  • Dampier’s description of the natives, ib.;
  • expedition in the Roebuck, [cx];
  • last Dutch voyage under Martin v. Delft, [cxiii];
  • accounts of the discoveries of the eastern coast entirely wanting before Cook, [cxvii];
  • name Australia given by Flinders, ib.;
  • memorial of Arias to Philip III respecting the exploration of the Southern Land, [1];
  • treatise of Fray Juan da Silva, ib.;
  • necessity proved from the scripture, obligation from the agreement with the Catholic Church, [4];
  • physical proofs of the existence and habitability, [14];
  • richness in metals and stones, [16];
  • discoveries already made, [17];
  • all tends to prove the greatness, populousness, and richness of the southern continent, [24];
  • Luis Vaez de Torres on Quiros’ discoveries, [31];
  • San Valerio, las Virgines, Santa Polonia, [32];
  • Matanza, skirmish with the natives, [34];
  • Taomaco, inhabitants white and red, some coloured, others black and mulattoes, agreeable people, slavery in use amongst them; they name more than forty islands, [36];
  • Chucupia islands, ib.;
  • Santa Maria island, [37];
  • possession taken of the Ray San Felipe y Santiago, and the land del Espirito Santo, ib.;
  • people black and naked, ib.;
  • departure of the Capitana, [38];
  • pass an archipelago of islands, [39];
  • description of the inhabitants, [40];
  • find Mahometans at the termination of this land, ib.;
  • instructions for the new expedition by the yachts Limmen, Zeemeuw, and Brak under Tasman, [43];
  • former voyages towards New Guinea and the South Land undertaken for the Dutch East India Company, [44];
  • Staten and Van Diemen’s Land found, also the passage to the South Sea, [47];
  • Voyage and shipwreck of F. Pelsart in the Batavia, [59];
  • people on shore savages, black, and quite naked, [64];
  • country flat without vegetation, very large ant-hills only in view, [65];
  • quantities of flies, ib.;
  • see eight savages with clubs, ib.
  • T. G. Pool’s voyage, [75];
  • description of the natives, their weapons, etc., [76]–88;
  • wreck of the Vergulde Draeck and expeditions undertaken, [67];
  • seen by the “Pinck,” [85];
  • headdress of the natives a kind of crown, [87];
  • a wild cat and two seals seen, [84];
  • natives use small hammers with wooden handles, and heads of hard stone, [88];
  • description of the west coast by Volkersen, [89];
  • the natives believe in some divinity in the serpent, [95];
  • Australia supposed to be divided from New Guinea by a strait terminating in the South Sea, [97];
  • sea between N. and Banda, called “Milk Sea,” on account, of its turning white, [97];
  • Dampier’s account, [99];
  • in his time unknown whether an island or a continent, [101];
  • dry soil, yet producing trees, mostly dragon trees, [101];
  • no animals, or beasts, few birds, few fish, but manatee and turtle; description of inhabitants, [102];
  • their habits, etc., [103];
  • no particular worship; weapons; no metal; language not known, [104];
  • unsuccessful attempt to make them carry water; indifferent to cloth, [106];
  • Dampier took several of them, [107];
  • W. Dampier’s adventures, from a Sloan MS., [108];
  • W. de Vlamingh’s voyage, [112];
  • a kind of scented wood found, [113];
  • description of country and natives, [114];
  • the inscription plate of the Eendraght, [115];
  • expedition by the Nijptang, Geelvinck and Wesel, [120];
  • a remarkable fish with a kind of arms and legs, [121];
  • aromatic trees, rats as big as cats, [121];
  • coast like that of Holland, easily approachable; smoke and fires seen on the main land, [122];
  • nut of a certain tree causing vomiting; two black swans, [123];
  • swans, rotganzen, geese, divers, [125];
  • no trees, but briars and thorns, [126];
  • two nests three fathoms in circumference, [129];
  • Dampier’s voyage in 1699, [134];
  • first signs of the land, [138];
  • curious birds, scuttle-bones, sea-weeds, [139];
  • soundings show coral ground, [140];
  • landing attempted, [141];
  • trees very short, [143];
  • birds, animals, raccoons, curious guanos, [144];
  • fish, [145];
  • turtle weighing two hundred pounds, water serpents, [148];
  • sea snakes, [151];
  • Bluff-point, Rosemary Island, [154];
  • fight with some natives, [158];
  • account of them, [160];
  • further description of the coast and its produce, [163];
  • want of water, [164];
  • discoveries of the Vossenbosch, D’ Waijer and Nova Hollandia, [165];
  • description of the islanders, [169];
  • about five hundred met with, [170];
  • the supposition of Australia being an island, strengthened by the natives’ rude and barbarous character, [171];
  • natives of Maria’s Land try to tow the patsjallang, [172];
  • the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [176]
• Bachian islands, king of, assisted by Quiros’ force, [41]
• Bandeira, Viscount Sa’ de, claim for the discovery of Australia by Magalhaens, [xxii]
• Barbié de Bocage, notice of a hydrographical atlas of New Holland, drawn by N. Vallard, [xxxv]
• Barros, on Gomez de Sequeira’s voyage, [xlvi]
• Bass’s Straits, “Baye neufve,” in the old maps, [lviii]
• Batavia, book of dispatches, v. Book
• Batavia, under Francis Pelsart, wrecked on the coast of New Holland, [59];
  • a chest with money to be recovered, [50];
  • remains found 178;
  • account of the wreck, and in Thevenot, [lxxxix];
  • in Harris, [xc]
• Bay perdue, on the old maps, [lvii]
• Baye neufve, perhaps Bass’s Straits, [lviii]
• Beach v. Boeach
• Berkenrode, ship, uncertainty about her fate, [183]
• Bessia river, name given to the second bay after Rooseboom’s Bay, [171]
• Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, supposed discovery of Australia, [xviii];
  • journals lost, [xix]
• Bocage, Barbié de v. Barbié
• Boeach, misspelt for Lucach or Lochac, [xvii]
• Book of dispatches, from Batavia, extract; instructions for the expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, [43]
• Bosphorus (Sepharat), meaning Spain, [10]
• Botany Bay, originally called Stingray, afterwards from the variety of plants, Botany Bay; not the Coste des Herbaiges on the early maps, [xxxiv]
• Bowrey, captain, a copy of Tasman’s map in his handwriting, [xcvi]
• Brak, equipped for the expedition to New Guinea, [47]
• Breu, Antonio, going to Banda, in 1511, [lx]
• Brosses, de, correcting Prévost’s misstatement on the discovery of Carpentaria, [c]
• Brazil, discovery by the Portuguese, [xxxviii]
• Buscop, Franchoys, skipper, extract from his journal, on the “Trials,” [187]
• Cabral, discovery of Brazil, [xxxviii]
• Callemore, point of, on the South Land, [172]
• Calice, promontory, on the South Land, [172]
• Cambodia, the Lochac of Marco Polo, [xvi]
• Cano, Sebastian de, one of the commissioners appointed to decide about the right of possession of the Moluccas, [xl]
• Cape Keer Weer, (turn again), the furthest point of New Guinea reached by the Duyfhen, [lxxx]
• Cape York, the very large islands, seen by Torres, in 11° S. L., [lxxv]
• Capitana, expedition under Quiros, [31];
  • crew mutinous, [34];
  • departs suddenly and treacherously, [38]
• Carpentaria, discovery falsely attributed to Carpenter, [xcix];
  • misstatement corrected, [c];
  • Dubois on Carpenter, [cii]
• Carpenter, the supposed discoverer of Carpentaria, [c]
• Carstens, Jan, despatched by J. P. Coen with the Pera and Arnhem from Amboina, murdered by the natives of New Guinea, [lxxxvii], [44]
• Castanheda, narrative of the discovery of New Guinea, [xlii]
• Casuaris, name of the east point in the Roseboom’s Bay, [168]
• Cecco d’Ascoli, map of, [xiv]
• Ceira, name of New Guinea on the old Portuguese maps; mistake for Ceram, [97]
• Ceram Lauers, trade with the natives of New Guinea, [96]
• Ceramers v. Ceram Lauers
• Charles V. sells his right to the Moluccas to John II, [xli]
• Chastelijn, Cornelis, account of the discoveries, [165]
• Chinese, supposed to have been acquainted with Australia before the Europeans, [xiv]
• Chucupia, island, [36]
• Clyn Amsterdam, expedition to New Guinea, [46]
• Coen, Jan Pietersz, dispatches the Pera and Arnhem, [lxxxvii]
• Collaert, Gerrit, captain of the Nijptang, [113]
• Cook, captain Dalrymple’s insinuations, [xxxi]:
  • established the separation between New Holland and New Guinea, [xciv]
• Cornelis, Jerome, super cargo of the Batavia, conspiracy, [69];
  • taken prisoner, [71];
  • executed, [74]
• Côte dangereuse, in the old maps, [xxxii], [lvii]
• Côte des Herbaiges, in the old maps, [xxxiv], [lviii]
• Crawford, Pako, v. Pako
• Crignon, Pierre, on Parmentier, [lix], [lxii]
• Dalrymple, Alexander, on Thevenot’s map, [xxxi];
  • translation of Torres relation of Quiros’ discoveries, [31]
• Dangerous coast, so called by Captain Cook, supposed to be the Côte dangereuse of the maps, [xxxii], [lvii]
• Dampier’s voyage, [cviii], [cix], [99], [108], [134]
• De Brosses, v. Brosses
• De Breu, Antonio, v. Breu
• De Bandeira, Sa’, Viscount, v. Bandeira
• De Gonneville, B. Paulmier, v. Gonneville
• De Legaspi, Lopez, v. Legaspi
• Del Espiritu Santo, discovery, [37]
• Delft Bay, on the coast of New Holland, [172]
• Delft, Martin van, voyage, [cxiii];
  • extract from his logbook, [167]
• De Mendana, v. Mendana
• De Meneses, v. Meneses
• De Metz, Gauthier, v. Metz
• De Saavedra, v. Saavedra
• De Santarem, Vicomte, v. Santarem
• De Silva, Fray Juan, v. Silva
• De Sequeira, Gomez, v. Sequeira
• De Torres, Luis Vaez, v. Torres
• De Villalobos, Ruy Lopez, v. Villalobos
• De Vlamingh, v. Vlamingh
• De Witt’s Land, coasted by the Vianen, [lxxxix]
• Dirk Hartog’s Island, plate, [lxxxi]
• Dirk Hartog’s Roads, [lxxxi]
• Dispatches, Book of, from Batavia, v. Book of Dispatches
• Doriados, sloop, destined for the expedition to New Holland, disabled, [165]
• Dourado’s map, [xxiii]
• Draeck, v. Vergulde Draeck
• Du Bocage, Barbié, v. Barbié
• Dubois, “Vies des Gouverneurs Généraux,” on Carpentaria, [cii]
• Dutch discoveries on the coast of Australia, [lxxvii]
• Dutch East India Company, charged with exclusiveness, [vi];
  • defended, [ix]
• Dutchmen, two, exposed by Pelsart, to be looked after, [50]
• Duyfhen, yacht, expedition to New Guinea; first authenticated discovery of the South Land, [lxxix];
  • discovery of the south and west coast of New Guinea, [43]
• Dwaers-inden-wegh, island, [68]
• D’Waijer, sloop, discoveries, [165]
• Edel, commander of a ship visiting the coast of New Holland; discovery of Edel’s Land on the west coast, [lxxxvi]
• Eendraght, ship, discoveries, [lxxxi], [44];
  • pole with tin plate of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh, [115]
• Eendraght, land, [177]
• Elburgh, flyboat, touches the South Land, [87]
• Emeloort, galiot, sent in search of the Vergulde Draeck, [80];
  • separated from the Waeckende Boey, [85]
• Esquivel, Juan de, assisted by Quiros and his force on one of the Ternate islands, [41]
• Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the line of demarcation, [xxxviii]
• Fernandez, Juan, said to have discovered the southern continent, [lxvi];
  • discovers the track from Lima to Chili, [20]
• Fish, a remarkable, with a sort of arms and legs, [121]
• Flinders, Matthew, suggested the name of Australia, [lxxviii], [xcvii];
  • on the account of Delft’s voyage, [cxv]
• Fortuyn, perhaps wrecked on the Abrolhos, [182]
• Four Hollanders’ ships voyage; first voyage of the Dutch to the East Indies, [lv]
• Franciscan order, undertakes the conversion of the southern hemisphere, [7]
• Franciscus, Monachus, Mappemonde, [lxiii]
• Frederick Houtman’s Abrolhos, v. Houtman’s Abrolhos
• French merchants send a ship to the Indies, [xix]
• Geminus, speaks of a southern continent, [xiii]
• Goede Hoop, yacht, joins the Witte Valck for the rescue of the wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, [78]
• Gonneville, Binot Paulmier de, the supposed first discoverer of New Holland, [xx]
• Gouffre in the old maps, perhaps Oyster Bay in Tasmania, [lviii]
• Guanos with apparently two heads, [144]
• Gulde Zeepard, ship, discovery, [45]
• Gun island, off the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [179].
• Haarlem, wreck of, in Table Bay, [182]
• Hale, H. on Tobi island, [xlviii]
• Hall, Bishop, Mundus alter and idem, [lxxxiv]
• Hamelin, Captain of the Naturaliste, finds the tin plate of Vlamingh on Dirk Hartog’s island, [lxxxiii]
• Hammond, Captain of the Antelope, [134]
• Harewind, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, [44]
• Haring, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, [44]
• Hartog, Dirk, discoveries, [lxxxi]
• Hasagays, arms of the natives of New Guinea, [96]
• Heenhoven, ship, uncertainty about its destiny, [183]
• Hillegonde, ship, accident, [183]
• Holden, Horace, driven to the Isle of Tobi, [xlix]
• Hondius, Jodocus, map, to illustrate the discoveries of Drake and Cavendish, [lxviii]
• Hoop, brigantine, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijk, [186]
• Houtman, Frederick, gives the name to the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [lxxxvi]
• Houtman’s Abrolhos, discovery, [lxxxvi];
  • the Houtman’s Abrolhos in 1727, by Leupe, [176]
• Instructions for the expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, [43]
• Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the line of demarcation, [xxxviii]
• Jacobus, Dutch ship, sees the Trials, [188]
• Jan de Bremen, of Pelsart’s crew, confesses to have caused the assassination of twenty-seven persons, [72]
• Jave, la Grande, on the old maps, supposed to be Australia, [lii]
• John II, agreement with Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, about the line of demarcation, [xxxviii]
• John II buys the right to the Moluccas from Charles V, [xli]
• Jonck, Aucke Pietersz, skipper of the Emeloort, account, [82]
• Judæis, C. de, Speculum Orbis, [lxviii]
• Kangaroo, first described by Dampier, [cx]
• Kart, Pieter v. Pita Ka’t
• Kaijmans-hoek, eastern point of the third inlet on the coast of New Holland, visited by the expedition in 1705, [171]
• Keer Weer, Cape, (turn again), furthest point reached on New Guinea, by the Duyfhen in 1606, [44]
• Kondur, island, described by Marco Polo, [xv]
• Kuijle Eijland, projecting point on the west side of New Holland, [168]
• Lacca-iha, New Guinea, particularly ugly people, [97]
• Lants Welvaren, carries drawings, etc., from the expedition of Vlamingh, to the directors of the council, [113]
• Leeman, Abraham van Santwigh, upper steersman of the Vergulde Draeck, [82]:
  • journal, [87]
• Leeuwin, ship, discovery, [lxxxvi]
• Legaspi, Miguel Lopez de, established a Spanish colony at Zebu, [lxx]
• Le Testu, Guillaume, map, [xxxvi]
• Leupe, P. A., description of the Houtman’s Abrolhos in 1727, [176]
• Lima, track to Chili, discovered by J. Fernandez, [20]
• Limmen, yacht, destined for a nearer discovery of New Guinea, [43];
  • equipped for the expedition, [47]
• Lochac, described by Marco Polo, [xv]
• Londe of Java, v. Jave
• Lonton, promontory on the fifth inlet on the E. coast of New Holland, visited by the Vossenbosch etc., in 1705, [172]
• Lopez de Legaspi, v. Legaspi
• Lopez de Villalobos, Ruy, v. Villalobos
• Lord North’s island, the island on which Sequeira was driven, [xlviii];
  • description of the natives, [xlii], [xlix], [l]
• Louisiade, Torres touching at, [lxxiv];
  • description of the inhabitants, [lxxv]
• Louwerens, Captain of the Jacobus, sees the Trials, [188]
• Lucach, v. Lochac
• Luchtenberg, wreck on the Wielingen, [182]
• Macrobius, map of the world, tenth century, [xiv]
• Magalhaens, Fernando, not the discoverer of Australia, [xxi];
  • offers his services to Spain, sails in search of the Moluccas, [xxxix]
• Magellan, F. v. Magalhaens
• Malaiur, island, supposed to be the kingdom of the Malays, [xvi]
• Maleto, v. Maletur
• Maletur, misspelt for Maleto, [xvii];
  • occurs on maps of the sixteenth century on or near the Terra Australis, [lxiv], [98]
• Manilius, mentions the southern continent, [xii]
• Marco Polo, map, [xiv];
  • account, supposed to refer to Australia, [xv]
• Mare Lantchidol, misspelt for Laut Kìdol, or Chidol, “South Sea,” [xvii]
• Maria, Santa, island, v. Santa Maria
• Maria’s Land, point at the Delft Bay; inhabitants very stupid, [172]
• Martin, Dr., on the map of Dourado, [xxiii]
• Martinez, Joan, Portolano, [lxiii]
• Matanza island, discovered by Torres, [35]
• Mauritius, ship, discoveries, [lxxxvi];
  • met by the expedition to New Guinea in 1622, [44]
• Meerlust, ship, [183]
• Mendaña de Meyra, Alvaro de, discoveries of New Guadalcanal, San Christobal, etc., [17]
• Meneses, Jorge de, carried to New Guinea, [lxiv]
• Mercator, Indications of Australia, [lxvii]
• Metz, Frederic, refutes Dalrymple’s insinuations against Cook, [xxxi]
• Metz, Gauthier de, v. Gauthier
• Meyenberg, ship, brings the cargo of the Middenrack and Stabroeck over to Batavia, [183]
• Mibais van Luyck, Gilles, first merchant of the Eendraght, [lxxxi]
• Middenrack, wrecks against the Table Bay, [182]
• Milk-Sea, between Banda and the South Land, [97]
• Moluccas, dispute between the Portuguese and Spanish, [xxxviii];
  • commission appointed to, [xxxix];
  • right to them sold by Charles V to John II. xli
• Monterey, Count of, vice-king of Peru, [lxxii]
• Montbret, Coquebert, memoir in the “Bulletin de Sciences,” [xxxiv]
• Montanus, Arias, Mappemonde, [lxv]
• Necquebar, v. Nicobar
• New Guadalcanal, discovered by Mendana, [17]
• New Hebrides, the Terra Australis of Quiros, [lxxii]
• New Guinea, discovery, [iv];
  • New Guinea and New Holland supposed to form parts of a southern continent, [xi];
  • made an island in Ortelius’s 1587 edition, [lxvii];
  • expedition under Tasman, instructions, [43];
  • the inhabitants, [52];
  • description of the country and the natives, [91];
  • their weapons, manners, etc., [92];
  • the Ceramers, Papoos; further description of the country and its inhabitants, [95] seqq.
  • New Guinea supposed to be divided from the South Land by a strait terminating in the South Sea; New Guinea in the old maps, under the name of Ceira (Ceram), [97]
• New Holland, v. Australia
• Nibbens, Jan, communication about the Zeewijk, [179], [184]
• Nicobar, island, Dampier’s canoe upsetting, all papers lost, [109]
• Nieuwvliet, carries the cargo of the wrecked Middenrack and Stabroeck to Batavia, [183]
• Nobbens, v. Nibbens
• Nova Hollandia, patsjallang, discoveries, [165]
• Nuyts, land of, colony projected, [cxv]
• Nuyts, Pieter, supposed commander of the Guide Zeepard; country called after him, [lxxxviii]
• Nijptang, hooker, under Captain Collaert, forms part of Vlamingh’s expedition in 1696, [113]
• Obadiah; imputed prophecy concerning the conquest of the southern hemisphere by Spain, [9]
• Oero-goba, in New Guinea; inhabitants particularly ugly, [97]
• Olyftack, sloop, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijk, [186]
• Oranjes, Hoek, point at the inlet of the coast of New Holland visited by the expedition in 1705, [171]
• Os Papuos, v. New Guinea
• Oyster bay, in Tasmania, [lviii]
• Papoos, at New Guinea, [94]
• Parmentier, Jean, of Dieppe, voyage to Sumatra, [lix]
• Paulmier de Gonneville, v. Gonneville
• Pelsart, Francis, Captain of the Batavia, [lxxxix];
  • shipwreck, [59]
• Pelsart’s group, off the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [178]
• Pentam, island, [xv];
  • supposed to be Bintam, [xvi]
• Pera, yacht, voyage to New Guinea, [44]
• Petan, occurring on the old maps on or near the Terra Australis, [lxiv]
• Philip III memorial to, by Arias, [1]
• Philippine islands, settlements attempted by the Spanish, [lxx]
• Pietersen Pieters, v. Pietersz
• Pietersz, Pieter, super cargo, takes the command of the expedition to New Guinea after Pool’s death, discovers the coast of Arnhem or Van Diemen’s Land, [xciii], [46]
• Pinzon, Vincent Yanez, discoveries on behalf of Spain, [xxxviii]
• Pita Ka’t, gave the natives of Tobi island their form of religion, [1]
• Plancius, Peter, opens a school for the purpose of teaching the way to India, [lxxviii]
• Poel, Gerrit Tomaz, v. Pool
• Polonia, Sta., v. Santa Polonia
• Pool, Gerrit Tomaz, expedition to New Guinea, killed by the natives, [xcii], [46]
• Portuguese, conceal their discoveries, [v], [xlii];
  • discover Brazil, [xxxviii];
  • their claim to the discovery of Australia, [xxi], [xxvi] seqq.;
  • had establishments in the East Indian Islands before 1529, [lxi]
• Portuguese kings, prohibit the exportation of marine charts, [v], [vi]
• Portuguese names on the old French maps of New Holland, [lix]
• Pronck, Hendrich, opinion on the expedition to New Holland, [117]
• Purry, J. P. Mémoire sur le Pays des Caffres, etc.; project of founding a colony in Nuyts-land, [cxv]
• Quiros, Pedro Fernandez, chief pilot of Alvaro de Mendana, [lxx];
  • memoirs to L. de Velasco, [lxxi];
  • his Terra Australis is New Hebrides, [lxxii];
  • separated from the other two ships, reaches Mexico, [lxxiv];
  • addresses Philip II on account of further explorations, [lxxvi];
  • discoveries, [18];
  • death, [lxxvi], [19]
• Ramusio, on the secrecy of the Portuguese with respect to their discoveries, [v]
• Ridderschap van Holland, de, loss of, causes Vlamingh’s expedition in 1696, [112], [114]
• Rivière de beaucoup d’Iles, [xxxii], [lvii]
• Roebuck, Dampier’s expedition, [cx]
• Roelandszoon, J. van Wijck, repudiates the charge of covetousness against the Dutch, [vii]
• Roggeveen, expedition, [cxvi]
• Roggeween, Jakob, passenger of the Vaderland Getrouw, [187]
• Roseboom, Andries, of the Waijer, logbook, [167]
• Roseboom’s Bay, visited by the Vossenbosch, etc., [168]
• Rosemary Island, recently examined by Captain King, [cxi];
  • name given by Dampier, [154]
• Rotterdam, ship, searched after, [44]
• Roty, Jean, v. Rotz
• Rotz, Jean, maps, [xxix]
• Rustenburg, point at the fourth inlet on the coast of New Holland, visited by the expedition in 1705, [172]
• Saavedra, Don Alvaro de, lights on New Guinea, [lxiv]
• Sadeur, Jacques (or Nicolas), “Avantures dans la découverte de la Terre Australe,” [cvi]
• Sago, biscuits made of, sold to the crew of Torres by Mahometans, [40]
• Sahul Bank, seen by P. Heywood, [cxiv]
• Sambava, occurs on all the MS. maps of the Great Java, [liv]
• San Christobal island, discovered, [17]
• Sandy Bay, [162]
• San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern continent, [23];
  • discovered, [37]
• Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de Meyra, [18]
• Santa Maria, discovered and named by Torres, [37]
• Santa Polonia, island, [32]
• Santarem, Vicomte de, “Essai sur l’histoire de la Cosmographie ... du Moyen Age,” [xiii]
• San Valerio, island, [32]
• Sardam, frigate, [71]
• Schildpads island, [172]
• Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, [75];
  • killed by the Southlanders, [76]
• Sea snakes seen by Dampier, [151]
• Sea, turning white, twice a-year, between Banda and the South Land, [97]
• Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, [xlvi]
• Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, [95]
• Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, [lx]
• Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, [1];
  • extract, [2]
• Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, [186]
• Solomon islands, discovered by Mendaña, [lxx]
• Sondur island, [xv]
• South Land, v. Australia
• Southern continent, existence of, believed anterior to Portuguese discoveries, [xiii]
• Southern India, of Gonneville, being Madagascar, [xxi]
• Spain, claim to the discovery of Australia, [xxi]
• Spult, island, discovery, [45]
• St. Brandan, island, [ii]
• St. Paul, island, Vlamingh’s expedition was to land there, [113]
• Sta. Maria, v. Santa Maria
• Stabroeck, wreck, [182]
• Steyns, Jan, communication about the wreck of the Zeewijck, [179], [180];
  • indicted before the court, [181]
• Strabo, speaks of a southern continent, [xiii]
• Struyck, Nicholas, tract, containing an account of Dampier’s voyage, [114]
• Swans, black, [cviii], [114]
• Taomaco, island, [36]
• Tasman, Abel Janszen, discovers Tasmania, explores Torres Straits, [xciii];
  • his lost papers quoted by Witsen, [xciv];
  • outlines of the coasts visited by him, represented on the floor of the Stadhuis at Amsterdam, [xcv];
  • maps, [xcvi];
  • notes of his voyage by Witsen, [xcviii];
  • instructions for the expedition to New Guinea, [43];
  • map found wrong by Dampier, [152]
• Temple, Sir William, on the secrecy of the Dutch about their discoveries, [vi]
• Ternate, on the Moluccas, fortified, [xxxvii]
• Testu, Guillaume le, v. Le Testu
• Themara, Francisco, Libro de las costumbres, [lxiv]
• Theopompus, mentions an island beyond the then known world, [ii]
• Thevet, “Cosmographie Universelle,” 1575, [lxvi]
• Tierra baixa, [lxviii]
• Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Magelhaens, [xxvi];
  • mistaken for New Guinea, ib.
• Tin plate, with the names of Dirk Hartog and others of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh’s expedition, [130]
• Toppers-hoëtien, island, [68]
• Tomai, the chief of Taomaco, [36]
• Tobi island, v. Lord North’s island
• Torres, Luis Vaez de, commander of the Almirante, [lxxiii];
  • discoveries, [20];
  • relation of the discoveries of Quiros, [31]
• Torres’ Straits, name, [lxxii];
  • passed by Tasman, [xcii]
• Trial Rocks, opinions on, [186]
• Tristan d’Acunha, drawing of;
  • Vlamingh’s expedition was to land there, [113], [119]
• Turtledove, shoal, [177]
• Vaderland Getrouw, extract from the skipper’s journal, [187]
• Valerio, San, v. San Valerio
• Vallard, Nicholas, MS. Atlas with his name, [xxxv]
• Van Diemen, Antonio, on the Houtman’s Abrolhos, [187]
• Van Diemen’s Land, so named from the governor-general, [xciii];
  • north-west corners explored by the Vossenbosch expedition, [166]
• Van Keulen, map, [xcvi]
• Van Wijck Roelandszoon, v. Roelandszoon
• Varckenshoek, west point of Rooseboom’s Bay, [168]
• Vaz Dourado, map, [xxiii]
• Veerman, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, [186]
• Vergulde Draeck, expedition, [cv];
  • wreck, [77]
• Vianen, ship, discovery, [lxxxix], [45]
• Villalobos, Ruy Lopez de, attempting a settlement on the Philippine islands, [lxx]
• Vinck, flyboat, in search of the Vergulde Draeck, [79]
• Virgines, islands, [32]
• Visser, chief pilot with Tasman, instructions, [43]
• Vlamingh, Cornelis de, captain of the Weseltje, [113]
• Vlamingh, Willem de, voyage, [cviii], [111];
  • inscription on the plate on Dirk Hartog’s island, [lxxxi]
• Volckersen, Samuel, captain of the Waeckende Boey, account, [89]
• Vossenbosch Bay, on the coast of New Holland, [172]
• Vossenbosch, fluyt, discoveries, [165] seqq.
• Waeckende Boey, sent in search of the wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, [cv], [80];
  • loses boat, schuyt, and fourteen men, [84]
• Water serpents, seen by Dampier, [148]
• Wesel, yacht, expedition to New Guinea, [46]
• Weseltje, galiot, unsuccessful expedition to the island of Mony, [116]
• Weasel, shallop, [75]
• Weybehays, fighting against Cornelis, [70];
  • takes him prisoner, [71]
• Wielingen, the, on the Zeeland Bank, [182]
• Witsen, Burgomaster, his notes the only account of Tasman’s voyage, [xcviii];
  • extract from his “Noord en Oost Tartarye,” [91]
• Witte Valck, sent to the rescue of the men and specie of the Vergulde Draeck, [78]
• Wytfliet, Cornelius, on “Australis Terra,” [lxix]
• Wijck J. Roelandszoon, van, v. Roelandszoon
• Zeachen, (ship Zeehaen), supposed native of Arnheim made discoverer of Arnheim’s Land, [lxxxv]
• Zebu, Spanish colony founded at, [lxx]
• Zeehaen, ship, [lxxxv]
• Zeemeuw, yacht, destined for the discovery of New Guinea, [43], [47]
• Zeewijck, wreck, [176];
  • remains found, [179];
  • communication respecting the wreck, [179]
• Zeewijk, channel, [179]
• Zuysdorp, wreck, [178]

T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

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ON THE
DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA BY THE PORTUGUESE IN 1601.

BY

R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.

BEING

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOLUME OF “EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS.”

Extract from a letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., “On the Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601, five years before the earliest discovery hitherto recorded; communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, by Richard Henry Major, Esq., F.S.A.,” now distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement to the Volume of “Early Voyages to Terra Australis,” by the same author.