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

[37]. Appendix IV.

[38]. The western limit of these dangerous shoals, in long. 113° 20´ E., and the south-easternmost patch called Turtle Dove, is in lat. 29° 10´, long. 113° 57´. Horsburgh, London, 1838.

[39]. Sic in original. The editor does not find this name in the English navy. There is, in all probability, a mistake in the transcript of the word given as Pako. The passage quoted is stated in a note to have occurred in a letter dated March 31st, 1853, addressed to Captain Wipff of the Dutch navy, then commanding the corvette Sumatra off Sydney.

[40]. Appendix I and III.

[41]. Appendix II.

[42]. These papers have not been sent over.

[43]. On board of this ship, Mr. Jacob Roggeveen was a passenger, who, a few years later, became celebrated by his voyage round the world, and was afterwards made a Counsel of Justice at Batavia.

[44]. The Zeeland ship Vaderland Getrouw, sailed from Rammekens on the 6th of January, 1707, arrived on the 5th of May at the Cape, left Table Bay on the 31st of the same month, and came to anchor before Batavia on the 5th of August.—U. S. Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal, 1856, No. 4.

[45]. The inhabitants of the coast of Solor are specially mentioned as fishermen by Crawfurd, in his “Dictionary of the Indian Islands.”

[46]. This is the Island of Flores. In a “List of the principal gold mines obtained by the explorations (curiosidade) of Manoel Godinho de Heredea, Indian cosmographer, resident in Malaca for twenty years and more,” also published with the “Ordenaçōes da India,” Lisbon, 1807, the same story is told, but the Island Ende is there called Ilha do Conde.