Early Voyages to Terra Australis

Early Voyages to Terra Australis

Richard Henry Major, Geographer and map librarian who curated the map collection of the British Museum from 1844 until his retirement in 1880 (1818-1891)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Introduction

- A Memorial Addressed To His Catholic Majesty Philip The Third, King Of Spain

- Relation Of Luis Vaez De Torres

- Extract From The Book Of Dispatches From Batavia

- The Voyage And Shipwreck Of Captain Francis Pelsart

- Voyage Of Gerrit Thomasz Pool To The South Land

- Account Of The Wreck Of The Ship "de Vergulde Draeck" On The South Land

- Description Of The West Coast Of The South Land

- Extract Translated From Burgomaster Witsen's Noord En Oost Tartarye

- Account Of The Observations Of Captain William Dampier On The Coast Of New Holland, In 1687-88

- Extract From Sloan Ms., 3235

- Some Particulars Relating To The Voyage Of Willem De Vlamingh

- Appendix I

- Appendix Ii

- Extract From The Journal Of A Voyage Made To The Unexplored South Land

- Account Of The Observations Of Captain William Dampier

- A Written Detail Of The Discoveries And Noticeable Occurrences

- The Houtman's Abrolhos In 1727

- Appendix, No. I

- Appendix Ii

- Appendix Iii

- Appendix Iv

- A Supplement To The Volume Of Early Voyages To Terra Australis

- Extract From A Letter To Sir Henry Ellis, K.h