The Discovery of AustraliaNotes on early voyagers to southern seas & claimants to sighting Australia; list of 24 maps from 10c. to 1798 with notes Schouten & Le Maire (1616) compared inhabitants of New Guinea as superior to Aborigines; Abel Tasman (1642-4) names given by him, quotes from journal, map; W. Dampier (1688) impressions of the land, inhabitants, appearance, food supplies, weapons; second visit (1699), encounter with natives; Cooks discoveries (1770); Marion du Fresne (1772) arrived Tasmania; p.61-75; Cooks second & third voyages, copies of 10 letters; carved & stained shield from Botany Bay. |
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Abrolhos Admiralty Adventure afterwards Amsterdam Anthony Van Diemen appeared atlas Batavia Besant boats British Museum called Canon of Windsor Cape Captain Cook Carved century charts command Cook's course crew Dalrymple Dampier dated Dear Sir Diemen Diemen's Land discovered discovery Dutch Dutch East India East India Company Endeavour English expedition explored Forster French gold Governor Guinea guns Hartog's hemisphere Holland Houtman's hydrographers Indies island JAMES COOK Java Jean Rotz journal King leagues letter likewise Lord Sandwich mariners Mile End Moluccas nation natives navigator observed Otaheite Pacific Pelsart Portugal Portuguese possession Quiros reached remarks Resolution River round sailors savages says second voyage Section of Map set sail ship ship's shore Sir Joseph Banks South Land south latitude South Sea Southern Continent Spanish Straits strange Tasman Terra Australis Timor Torres Van Diemen's Land vessels visited Windsor Castle Zealand
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Page 40 - ... as the Hodmadods have: and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows.
Page 40 - Their eyelids are always half-closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face; and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils, and mouth, too, if the lips are not shut very close.
Page 55 - The same penalty will be inflicted on every person who is found to embezzle, trade, or offer to trade, with any part of the ship's stores of what nature soever.
Page 47 - ... hardships, but even exempt from the want of ordinary relaxation. During the long and tedious voyages in which he was engaged, his eagerness and activity were never in the least abated. No incidental temptation could detain him for a moment ; even those intervals of recreation, which sometimes unavoidably occurred, and were looked for by us with a longing, that persons who have experienced the fatigues of service will readily excuse, were submitted to by him with a certain impatience, whenever...
Page 21 - And I have heard it said among the Dutch, that their East India Company have long since forbidden, and under the greatest penalties, any further attempts of discovering that continent, having already more trade in those parts than they can turn to account, and fearing some more populous nation of Europe might make great establishments of trade in some of those unknown regions ; which might ruin or impair what they have already in the Indies.
Page 41 - ... of their abode. There the old people that are not able to stir abroad by reason of their age, and the tender infants, wait their return ; and what Providence has bestowed on them they presently broil on the coals, and eat it in common.
Page 59 - Crozet in his narrative repeatedly states that the French gave no cause of offence, that up to the fatal day nothing could exceed the apparent harmony in which both races lived ; " they treated us," says Crozet, " with every show of friendship for thirty-three days, with the intention of eating us on the thirty-fourth.
Page 61 - Many plausible philosophical arguments have been urged in its support, and many facts alleged in its favour. The writer of this narrative fully remembers how much his imagination was captivated, in the more early part of his life, with the hypothesis of a southern continent. He has often dwelt upon it with rapture...
Page 54 - ... other productions of the earth ; and no officer or seaman, or other person belonging to the ship, excepting such as are so appointed, shall trade, or offer to trade, for any sort of provisions, fruit, or other productions of the earth, unless they have leave so to do.