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In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English found its way to the great Southern Continent before the Portuguese or Dutch sailors had sight of it, and it was the home of those wise students of God and nature to whom Bacon gave his New Atlantis. The
discoveries of America date from the close of the fifteenth century. The discoveries of Australia date only from the beginning of the seventeenth. The discoveries of the Dutch were little known in England before the time of Dampier's voyage, at the close of the seventeenth century, with which this volume ends. The name of New Holland, first given by the Dutch to the land they discovered on the north-west coast, then extended to the continent and was since changed to
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Introduction |
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Voyage Of Francis Pelsart To Australasia, 1628-29
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The Voyage Of Captain Abel Jansen Tasman For The Discovery Of Southern Countries, 1642-43
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The Occasion And Design Of This Voyage |
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Captain Tasman Sails From Batavia, August 14, 1642 |
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Remarks On The Variation Of The Needle |
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He Discovers A New Country To Which He Gives The Name Of Van Diemen's Land |
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Sails From Thence For New Zealand |
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Visits The Island Of The Three Kings, And Goes In Search Of Other Islands Discovered By Schovten |
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Remarkable Occurrences In The Voyage |
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Observations On, And Explanation Of, The Variation Of The Compass |
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Discovers A New Island, Which He Calls Pylstaart Island |
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And Two Islands, To Which He Gives The Name Of Amsterdam And Rotterdam |
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And An Archipelago Of Twenty Small Islands |
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Occurrences In The Voyage |
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He Arrives At The Archipelago Of Anthong Java |
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His Arrival On The Coast Of New Guinea |
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Continues His Voyage Along That Coast |
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Arrives In The Neighborhood Of Burning Island, And Surveys The Whole Coast Of New Guinea |
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Comes To The Islands Of Jama And Moa |
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Prosecutes His Voyage To Ceram |
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Arrives Safely At Batavia, June 15, 1643 |
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Consequences Of Captain Tasman's Discoveries |
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Remarks Upon The Voyage |
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An Account Of New Holland And The Adjacent Islands. 1699-1700. By Captain William Dampier
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