A History of Australia: From the earliest times to the age of Macquarie |
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... Cape of Good Hope to Djakarta . To use the trade winds he sailed due east from Cape Town for four thousand miles and then turned north . In October 1616 the ship Eendracht ( Concord ) , skipper Dirk Hartog , using this route , ran on to ...
... Cape of Good Hope to Djakarta . To use the trade winds he sailed due east from Cape Town for four thousand miles and then turned north . In October 1616 the ship Eendracht ( Concord ) , skipper Dirk Hartog , using this route , ran on to ...
Page 178
... Cape Schanck , along the south coast of Phillip Island , where they passed a needle - like rock lying under the shore and Cape Wollamai , which Flinders explained , had been so named because Mr Bass was induced to give it that name when ...
... Cape Schanck , along the south coast of Phillip Island , where they passed a needle - like rock lying under the shore and Cape Wollamai , which Flinders explained , had been so named because Mr Bass was induced to give it that name when ...
Page 180
... Cape Keer - Weer , but when he could see nothing like a cape there , though the southern extreme of the land seen from the mast head projected a little , from respect to antiquity he announced that the Dutch name would be preserved ...
... Cape Keer - Weer , but when he could see nothing like a cape there , though the southern extreme of the land seen from the mast head projected a little , from respect to antiquity he announced that the Dutch name would be preserved ...
Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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