Early Voyages
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.
作者：Major, Richard Henry, 1818-1891
体例：段 章数：24
字数：486,222 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 24 段- The earliest _assertion_ of the discovery of a land bearing
- The third and fourth of these maps (if our other inferences
- Such is the narrative of Castanheda. The Jesuit Maffei, who
- We now proceed to a more minute examination of the contour o
- At the same time, to both Quiros and Dalrymple we are indire
- The next discovery upon the western coasts was that of the s
- From the voyage of Tasman to the close of the seventeenth ce
- SIRE,—The memorial of the Doctor Juan Luis Arias showeth: Th
- And thus, in agreement with this, the same prophet, speaking
- Meanwhile Your Majesty might not apprehend how that this pro
- We went upon this bank for two months, at the end of which t
- Shewing the samples and goods, you and the junior merchants
- An observation on the 22nd showed them to be in latitude 16°
- Notwithstanding all this, and although, as the statement of
- “The fruits of the country of New Guinea are very few, consi
- [Sidenote: December 1687–88.]
- On the morning of the 6th, at sunrise, we divided ourselves
- The night before, the sun set in a black cloud, which appear
- The 18th, in the afternoon, being three or four leagues off
- Next morning my men came aboard and brought a rundlet of bra
- “Finding anchorage for our ship at the S.E. part of the sout
- AUSTRALIA.
- Vlamingh, Cornelis de, captain of the Weseltje, 113
- The word “laut” means south, but is erroneously spelt in the