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

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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

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Edited by Richard Henry Major

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: February 2013
Print publication year:: 2010
First published in:: 1859
Online ISBN:: 9780511696763
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511696763

Subjects:: Geography, Historical Geography, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, History, Regional History after 1500
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This compilation by R. H. Major of the British Museum (published in 1859) brings together various manuscript and published sources, some of them anonymous, which provide a picture of European exploration in the Southern Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It includes passages from the writings of William Dampier, who not only surveyed part of the coast of Australia ('New Holland'), but also made detailed notes of the fauna and flora he encountered there.

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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

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-xi

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BINDER
pp xii-xii

INTRODUCTION
pp xiii-cxxvii

A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN
pp 1-30

RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES
pp 31-42

EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA
pp 43-58

THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART
pp 59-74

VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND
pp 75-76

ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “DE VERGULDE DRAECK”
pp 77-88

DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH LAND
pp 89-90

EXTRACT TRANSLATED FROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN'S
pp 91-98

ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
pp 99-107

EXTRACT FROM SLOAN MS., 3236
pp 108-111

SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH
pp 112-119

EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH LAND
pp 120-133

ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
pp 134-164

A WRITTEN DETAIL OF THE DISCOVERIES AND NOTICEABLE OCCURRENCES
pp 165-175

THE HOUTMAN'S ABROLHOS
pp 176-190

INDEX
pp 191-201

Outline Chart of TERRA AUSTRALIS OF AUSTRALIA
pp 202-219

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