translation “landt.” A similar blunder has been abundantly repeated on
the maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the name of
“Laut Chidol,” the Southern Sea, there spelt constantly Lantchidol.
Footnote 17:
New Zealand.
Footnote 18:
At that time the governor-general, in instructions or issuing orders,
styled all the other governors, _vice-governors_.
Footnote 19:
Or 24–pounder. (Note in Dalrymple.)
Footnote 20:
Zinc.
Footnote 21:
Jurjansz signifies George’s son, as Jansz signifies John’s son;
Cornelisz, Cornelius’s son, etc.
Footnote 22:
“Dwaers-inden-wegh,” signifies the island which lies across the path,
_i.e._, Thwart-the-way Island.
Footnote 23:
From another extract from these MS. logbooks at the Hague, which was
made at the editor’s request, there was an additional observation of
importance which is here omitted. Three times Captain Jonck speaks of
a southern current running along the coast, which struck his attention
in these seas. Among other passages he speaks of it in these terms:
“We had deviated from our course fifteen minutes to the south, and
this we attributed to a southern current, which we have observed
several times on this coast, which is a strange thing, the being drawn
by the current in spite of the wind and the waves.” Elsewhere he
estimates the force of this current at ten miles in the twenty-four
hours.
Footnote 24:
In another place Witsen says this happened in 1658, and that eighty
persons were so left behind, evidently from the crew of the _Waeckende
Boey_, see _ante_, p. 81.
Footnote 25:
So in the Dutch. The editor has been unable to identify this plant.
Footnote 26:
Clearly a mistake. The word means Ceram.
Footnote 27:
Nicobar. The circumstance of their canoe upsetting off this island,
and their books and drafts being all wetted and some of them lost, is
also mentioned in the printed editions of Dampier’s voyage.
Footnote 28:
This exceedingly scarce printed narrative, which had been zealously
sought for by the editor for several years, and had eluded the search
of previous writers, reached his hands at the very critical moment to
admit of its being translated and inserted in its proper place in the
volume, the next in sequence to the present paper. Although of no
great interest except as an original account of the voyage, it is
important to know of what it consists, and it is the editor’s grateful
duty to state that it is solely to the zeal, intelligence, and
kindness of Mr. Frederick Müller, of Amsterdam, that he is indebted
for the good fortune of procuring the use of the document.
Footnote 29:
Appendix I and II.
Footnote 30:
“Further: ‘1697, February 4th. Arrived here the ship _Geelvinck_, of
Amsterdam: captain commandant, Wilhem van Vlaming, of Vlielandt;
assistant, Jan van Bremen, of Copenhagen; first pilot, Michéel Bloem
van Estight, of Bremen; the hooker the _Nyptangh_: captain Gerrit
Collaert, of Amsterdam; assistant, Theodorus Heermans, of the same
place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz, of Bremen; then the galliot
_Weseltje_: commander, Cornelis van Vlaming, of Vlielandt; pilot,
Coert Gerritzs, of Bremen. Sailed from here with our fleet on the
12th, to explore the south land, and afterwards bound for Batavia.’”
Footnote 31:
This word, which is perhaps misspelt, does not occur in Nemnick’s
polyglot _Lexicon der Naturgeschichte_.
Footnote 32:
It has not been deemed necessary for the present purpose to reproduce
these plates.
Footnote 33:
In Dr. Brown’s _Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et Insulæ Van Diemen_,
occurs the following under the family of Goodenoviæ: “Genus Scævolæ et
Diaspasi propinquum, sed ab iisdem sat distinctum, dixi in memoriam
Gulielmi Dampier, navarchi et peregrinatoris celeberrimi, in variis
suis itineribus naturæ semper assidui observatoris, nec botanicem
negligentis, qui oram occidentalem Novæ Hollandiæ bis visitavit, cujus
regionis plantæ aliquæ depictæ in relatione itineris extant, et inter
ineditas secum reportatas (quarum plures nunc in Museo Oxoniensi
asservantur) _Dampiera incana_ fuit.”
Footnote 34:
Trachydosaurus rugosus. Family of lizards Scincidæ.
Footnote 35:
Appendix V.
Footnote 36:
Given in the Assembly of the Seventeen, on the 7th December, 1619.
Footnote 37:
Appendix IV.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 40:
Appendix I and III.
Footnote 41:
Appendix II.
Footnote 42:
These papers have not been sent over.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 45:
The inhabitants of the coast of Solor are specially mentioned as
fishermen by Crawfurd, in his “Dictionary of the Indian Islands.”
Footnote 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.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. P. liv, changed “comparatively and light” to “comparatively light”.
2. Pp. lxxviii and 3, changed “Inleidning” to “Inleiding”.
3. P. lxxxi, changed “den Oppercoopmen Gilles Mibais van Amsterdam,
den” to “den Oppercoopmen Gilles Mibais Van Luyck, Kapitein Dirk
Hartog, van Amsterdam, den” to agree with English translation.
4. Silently corrected variations in spelling in the contents and index.
5. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.
6. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together
at the end of the book.
7. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.