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The Voyage of Torres. Brett Hilder. xxxiii + 194 pp. Maps and illustrations. University of Queensland Press. Distributed in the United Kingdom by Prentice-Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, 1980, £12.95.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1981
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4 In the sailing orders set out by Quiros, Torres was required to take observations of the Crucero (Southern Cross). The results of such observations, made at night using a mariner's astrolabe, must have been very crude or even worthless.
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