Contents
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| Cover |
cover |
| Fly Page |
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| Title Page |
title |
| List of books, discussed or referred to in the work |
books |
| List of Maps and Figures |
maps |
| Introduction |
intro |
| DOCUMENTS: |
documents |
| I. Dutch. notions respecting the Southland in 1595 |
1 |
| II. Notices of the south-coast of New Guinea in 1602 |
3 |
| III. Voyage of the ship Duifken under command of Willem Jansz(oon)
and Jan Lodewijkszoon Rosingeyn to New Guinea.--Discovery of the east-coast
of the present Gulf of Carpentaria (1605--1606) |
4 |
| IV. Fresh expedition to New Guinea by the ship Duifken (1607) |
6 |
| V. Voyage of the ships Eendracht and Hoorn, commanded by Jacques Le
Maire and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten through the Pacific Ocean and along
the north-coast of New Guinea (1616) |
6 |
| VI. Project for the further discovery of the Southland-Nova Guinea
(1616) |
7 |
| VII. Voyage of de Eendracht under command of Dirk Hartogs(zoon). Discovery
of the West-coast of Australia in 1616: Dirk Hartogs-island and -road, Land
of the Eendracht or Eendrachtsland (1616) |
8 |
| VIII. Voyage of the ship Zeewolf, from the Netherlands to India, under
the command of supercargo Pieter Dirkszoon and skipper Haevik Claeszoon
van Hillegom.--Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1618) |
10 |
| IX. Voyage of the ship Mauritius from the Netherlands to India under
the command of supercargo Willem Jansz. or Janszoon and skipper Lenaert
Jacobsz(oon). Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia.--Willems-rivier
(1618) |
12 |
| X. Further discovery of the South-coast of New-Guinea by the ship Het
Wapen van Amsterdam? (1619?) |
13 |
| XI. Voyage of the ships Dordrecht and Amsterdam under commander Frederik
De Houtman, supercargo Jacob Dedel, and skipper Reyer Janszoon van Buiksloot
and Maarten Corneliszoon(?) from the Netherlands to the East-Indies.--Further
discovery of the West-coast of Australia: Dedelsland and Houtman's Abrolhos
(1619) |
14 |
| XII. Voyage of the ship Leeuwin from the Netherlands to Java.--Discovery
of the South-West coast of Australia.--Leeuwin's land (1622) |
17 |
| XIII. The Triall. (English discovery)--The ship Wapen van Hoorn touches
at the West-coast of Australia.--New projects for discovery made by the
supreme government at Batavia (1622) |
17 |
| XIV. Voyage of the ships Pera and Arnhem, under command of Jan Carstenszoon
or Carstensz., Dirk Meliszoon and Willem Joosten van Colster or Van Coolsteerdt.--Further
discovery of the South-West coast of New Guinea. Discovery of the Gulf of
Carpentaria (1623) |
21 |
| XV. Voyage of the ship Leiden, commanded by skipper Klaas Hermansz(oon)
from the Netherlands to Java.--Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia
(1623) |
49 |
| XVI Discovery of the Tortelduif island (rock) (1624?) |
50 |
| XVII. Voyage of the ship Leijden, commanded by skipper Daniel Janssen
Cock, from the Netherlands to Java. Further discovery of the West-coast
of Australia (1626) |
50 |
| XVIII. Discovery of the South-West coast of Australia by the ship Het
Gulden Zeepaard, commanded by Pieter Nuijts, member of the Council of India,
and by skipper Francois Thijssen or Thijszoon (1627) |
51 |
| XIX. Voyage of the ships Galias, Utrecht and Texel, commanded by Governor-General
Jan Pieterszoon Coen.--Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia
(1627) |
51 |
| XX. Voyage of the ship Het Wapen van Hoorn, commanded by supercargo
J. Van Roosenbergh.--Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1627) |
52 |
| XXI. Discovery of the North-West coast of Australia by the ship Vianen
(Viane, Viana), commanded by Gerrit Frederikszoon De Witt.--De Witt's land
(1628) |
54 |
| XXII. Discovery of Jacob Remessens-, Remens-, or Rommer-river, south
of Willems-river (before 1629) |
54 |
| XXIII. Shipwreck of the ship Batavia under commander Francois Pelsaert
on Houtmans Abrolhos. Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1629) |
55 |
| XXIV. Further surveyings of the West-coast of Australia by the ship
Amsterdam under commander Wollebrand Geleynszoon De Jongh and skipper Pieter
Dircksz, on her voyage from the Netherlands to the East Indies (1635) |
62 |
| XXV. New discoveries on the North-coast of Australia, by the ships
Klein-Amsterdam and Wesel, commanded by (Gerrit Thomaszoon Pool and) Pieter
Pieterszoon (1636) |
64 |
| XXVI. Discovery of Tasmania (Van Diemensland), New Zealand (Statenland
islands of the Tonga- and Fiji-groups, etc. by the ships Heemskerk and de
Zeehaen, under the command of Abel Janszoon Tasman, Frans Jacobszoon Visscher,
Yde Tjerkszoon Holman or Holleman and Gerrit Jansz(oon) (1642-1643) |
72 |
| XXVII. Further discovery of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the North and
North-West coasts of Australia by the Ships Limmen, Zeemeeuw and de Bracq,
under the command of Tasman, Visscher, Dirk Corneliszoon Haen and Jasper
Janszoon Koos (1644) |
72 |
| XXVIII. Exploratory voyage to the West-coast of Australia round by
the south of Java, by the ship Leeuwerik, commanded by Jan Janszoon Zeeuw
(1648)XXVII. Further discovery of the Gulf of Carpentaria, the North and
North-West coasts of Australia by the Ships Limmen, Zeemeeuw and de Bracq,
under the command of Tasman, Visscher, Dirk Corneliszoon Haen and Jasper
Janszoon Koos (1644) |
73 |
| XXIX. Shipwreck of the Gulden or Vergulden Draak on the West-coast
of Australia, 1656.--Attempts to rescue the survivors, 1656-1658.--Further
surveyings of the West-coast by the ship de Wakende Boci, commanded by Samuel
Volckerts(zoon), and by the ship Emeloord, commanded by Aucke Pieterszoon
Jonck, (1658) |
75 |
| XXX. The ship Elburg, commanded by Jacob Pieterszoon Peereboom, touches
at the South-West coast of Australia and at cape Leeuwin, on her voyage
from the Netherlands to Batavia (1658) |
81 |
| XXXI. Further discovery of the North-West-coast of Australia by the
ship de V1iegende Zwaan, commanded by Jan Van der Wall, on her voyage from
Ternate to Batavia in February 1678 |
82 |
| XXXII. Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia by the ship
Geelvink, under the skipper-commander of the expedition, Willem De V1amingh,
the ship Nijptang, under Gerrit Collaert, and the ship het Wezeltje, commanded
by Cornelis De V1amingh (1696-1697) |
83 |
| XXXIII. Further discovery of the North-coast of Australia by the ships
Vossenbosch, commanded by Maarten Van Delft, de Waijer under Andries Rooseboom,
of Hamburg, and Nieuw-Holland or Nova-Hollandia, commanded by Pieter Hendrikszoon,
of Hamburg (1705) |
87 |
| XXXIV. Exploratory voyage by order of the West-India Company "to the
unknown part of the world, situated in the South Sea to westward of America",
by the ships Arend and the African Galley, commanded by Mr. Jacob Roggeveen,
Jan Koster, Cornelis Bouman and Roelof Roosendaal (1721-1722) |
89 |
| XXXV. The ship Zeewijk, commanded by Jan Steijns, lost on the Tortelduif
rock (1727) |
91 |
| XXXVI. Exploratory voyage of the ships Rijder and Buis, commanded by
lieutenant Jan Etienne Gonzal and first mate Lavienne Lodewijk Van Asschens,
to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1756) |
92 |
| Indices (Persons, Ships, Localities) |
101 |