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Aagtekerke, perhaps wrecked off the Houtman's Abrolhos, 182
Aberts, Pieter, skipper, one of the survivors of the "Vergulde Draeck," 77
Abrolhos, v. Houtman's Abrolhos
Albuquerque, in 1511 sent A. de Breu and F. Serrano, with three ships to Banda and Malacca, lx
Alexander VI, Pope, Bull on the discoveries, xxxvii
Alvaro de Mendana, discovers the Solomon Islands, the Marquesas, Queen Charlotte's Islands, attempts to establish a Colony on Santa Cruz, lxx
Ambrollossen, Frederic Houtman, v. Houtman's Abrolhos
Amsterdam, island, drawing of, brought back by Vlamingh, in 1696, 113
Amsterdam, shallop, expedition to the South Land under the command of G. T. Pool, 75
Antelope, of London, under the command of Captain Hammond, met by Dampier, 13
Ant-hills, taken for habitations, 65
Aratus, speaks of a southern continent, xiii
Arias, Dr. Juan Luis, memorial to Philip III, urges the necessity of the discovery of the southern hemisphere, for the sake of converting the natives before the English and Dutch heretics might do it, 1; extract from De Silva's treatise, 3; prophecies, 4; the southern hemisphere not all water, 12; fertile, habitable, 15; rich in metals, pearls, animals, fruits, 16; A. Mendana de Meyra's discoveries, 17; P. F. de Quiros, 18; J. Fernandez, 20; Indians of Taumaco indicate a continent southwards,23; portion of the South Land already visited, larger than Europe, 24; the decline of Spain, caused by the neglect of exploration, 25; final less of the crown threatened, 28
Arms of Amsterdam, ship, touched at the south coast of New Guinea, in 1619, part of the crew murdered by the natives, 44
Aristotle, speaks of a southern continent, xiii
Arnhem, island, discovery, 45
Arnhem, yacht, voyage to New Guinea, 44; skipper and eight of the crew murdered, 45
Atlantis, island of, described by Pla to,ii
Aucke, Pietersz Jonck, v. Jonck
AUSTRALIA. Regarded as forming part of New Guinea and the great southern continent, iv-xi; indications on maps in the sixteenth century, iv, xii, lxv; its coasts touched by the Dutch in the seventeenth, v; secrecy of the Portuguese, ib.; of the Dutch East India Company vi; statement of Sir W. Temple, ib.; quotations from early writers, xii; early maps with indications, xiv; assertion of the discovery by the Chinese, ib.; Binot Paulmier de Gonneville the supposed first discoverer, xx; the Portuguese claim to the discovery, xxi; the Spanish claim, xxii; Magalhaens' claim, xxii; Dr. Martin on the map of Dourado, xxiii; the tract laid down is either Tierra del Fuego or New Guinea, xxvi; other indications on maps of its discovery by the Portuguese, ib.; Dalrymple's disparagement of Captain Cook, xxxi; its refutation by Metz, xxxii; account, by Barbié de Bocage, of a hydrographic atlas which he supposed to be drawn by N. Val-lard, of Dieppe, in 1547, xxxv; Gomez de Sequeira, xlvi; Barros' narrative, xlvi; Sequeira driven to Tobi or Lord North's Island, xlviii; account of the island, xlix; Australia shown to be the country described in those maps, li; the "Londe of Java," lii; P. Crignon on J. Parmentier's voyage, lix; the Portuguese, not the French, the real discoverers, lx; the quoted French maps copied after Parmentier, lxi; Parmentier's information derived from the Portuguese, lxii; the discovery before 1542, lxiv; explorations by the Spanish in the sixteenth century, lxx; P. Fernandez de Quiros, lxx; Australia del Espirito Santo, lxxiv; first authenticated discovery made by a vessel from Holland in 1606, lxxviii; the Duyfhen, 1 xxix; the Eendraght, under Dirk Hartog, lxxx; plates on Dirk Hartog's Island, lxxxii; Bishop Hall's Terra Australis," lxxxiv; Zeachen, erroneously described as "the discoverer of Arnheim's Land, lxxxv; the Land of Edel, lxxxvi; Houtman's Abrolhos, ib.; Eendraght Land, lxxxvii; the Pera and Arnhem, ib.; the south discovered in 1627 by the Gulde Zeepard, lxxxviii; De Witt's Land, lxxx ix; a foul and barren shore, inhabitants wild, black, ib.; wreck of the Batavia on the Houtman's Abrolhos, ib.; account of the natives, xci; G. T. Pool's, P. Pietersen's expedition, xciii; A. J. Tasman's expedition and instructions, ib.; narrative missing, xciv; outline of Tasman's voyage inlaid in the floor at the Stadhuis at Amsterdam, xcv; on maps, cxvi; fragment of the account in Witsen's notes, xcviii; description of the natives, xcix; Carpentaria not discovered by Carpenter, Van Diemen's Land not discovered by Van Diemen, c; the great south land called New Holland, ciii; wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, cv; Waeckende Boey and Emeloort sent to the rescue, description and chart of the west coast, cvi; J. Sadeur's "Terre Australe," cvii; W. de Vlamingh's voyage, cviii; Dampier's description of the natives, ib.; expedition in the Roebuck, cx; last Dutch voyage under Martin v. Delft, cxiii; accounts of the discoveries of the eastern coast entirely wanting before Cook, cxvii; name Australia given by Flinders, ib.; memorial of Arias to Philip III respecting the exploration of the Southern Land, 1; treatise of Fray Juan da Silva, ib.; necessity proved from the scripture, obligation from the agreement with the Catholic Church, 4; physical proofs of the existence and habitability, 14; richness in metals and stones, 16; discoveries already made, 17; all tends to prove the greatness, populousness, and richness of the southern continent, 24; Luis Vaez de Torres on Quiros' discoveries, 31; San Valerio, las Virgines, Santa Polonia, 32; Matanza, skirmish with the natives, 34; Taomaco, inhabitants white and red, some coloured, others black and mulattoes, agreeable people, slavery in use amongst them; they name more than forty islands, 36; Chucupia islands, ib.; Santa Maria island, 37; possession taken of the Ray San Felipe y Santjago, and the land del Espirito Santo, ib.; people black and naked, ib.; departure of the Capitana, 38; pass an archipelago of islands, 39; description of the inhabitants, 40; find Mahometans at the termination of this land, ib.; instructions for the new expedition by the yachts Limmen, Zeemeuw, and Brak under Tasman, 43; former voyages towards New Guinea and the South Laud undertaken for the Dutch East India Company, 44; Staten and Van Diemen's Land found, also the passage to the South Sea, 47; Voyage and shipwreck of F. Pelsart in the Batavia, 59; people on shore savages, black, and quite naked, 64; country flat without vegetation, very large ant-hills only in view, 65; quantities of flies, ib.; see eight savages with clubs, ib.; T. G. Pool's voyage, 75; description of the natives, their weapons,etc.,76- 88; wreck of the Vergulde Draeck and expeditions undertaken, 67; seen by the "Pinck,"85; headdress of the natives a kind of crown, 87; a wild cat and two seals seen, 84; natives use small hammers with wooden handles, and heads of hard stone, 88; description of the west coast by Volkersen, 89; the natives believe in some divinity in the serpent, 95; Australia supposed to be divided from New Guinea by a strait terminating in the South Sea, 97; sea between N. and Banda, called "Milk Sea," on account of its turning white, 97; Dampier's account, 99; in his time unknown whether an island or a continent, 101; dry soil, yet producing trees, mostly dragon trees, 101; no animals, or beasts, few birds, few fish, but manatree and turtle; description of inhabitants, 102; their habits, etc., 103; no particular worship; weapons; no metal; language not known, 104; unsuccessful attempt to make them carry water; indifferent to cloth, 106; Dampier took several of them, 107; W. Dampier's adventures, from a Sloan MS., 108; W. de Vlamingh's voyage, 112; a kind of scented wood found, 113; description of country and natives, 114; the inscription plate of the Eendraght, 115; expedition by the Nijptang, Geelvinck and Wesel, 120; a remarkable fish with a kind of arms and legs, 121; aromatic trees, rats as big as cats, 121; coast like that of Holland, easily approachable; smoke and fires seen on the main land, 122; nut of a certain tree causing vomiting; two black swans, 123; swans, rotgansen, geese, divers, 125; no trees, but briars and thorns, 126; two nests three fathoms in circumference,129; Dampier's voyage in 1699, 134; first signs of the land, 138; curious birds, scuttle-bones, sea-weeds, 139; soundings show coral ground, 140; landing attempted, 141; trees very short, 143; birds, animals, raccoons, curious guanos, 144; fish, 145; turtle weighing two hundred pounds, water serpents, 148; sea snakes, 151; Bluff-point, Rosemary Island, 154; fight with some natives, 158; account of them, 160; further description of the coast and its produce, 163; want of water, 164; discoveries of the Vossenbosch, D' Waijer and Nova Hollandia, 165; description of the islanders, 169; about five hundred met with, 170; the supposition of Australia being an island, strengthened by the natives' rude and barbarous character, 171; natives of Maria's Land try to tow the pats-j allang, 172; the Houtman's Abrolhos, 174
Bachian islands, king of, assisted by Quiros' force, 41
Bandeira, Viscount Sa' de, claim for the discovery of Australia by Magalhaens, xxii
Barbie de Bocage, notice of a hydro-graphical atlas of New Holland, drawn by N. Vallard, xxxv
Barros, on Gomez de Sequeira's voyage, xlvi
Bass's Straits, "Baye neufve," in the old maps, lviii
Batavia, book of dispatches, v. Book
Batavia, under Francis Pelsart, wrecked on the coast of New Holland, 59; a chest with money to be recovered, 50; remains found 178; account of the wreck, and in Thevenot, lxxxix; in. Harris, xc
Bay perdue, on the old maps, lvii
Baye neufve, perhaps Bass's Straits, lviii
Beach v. Boeach
Berkenrode, ship, uncertainty about her fate, 183
Bessia river, name given to the second bay after Rooseboom's Bay, 171
Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, supposed discovery of Australia, xviii journals lost, xix
Bocage, Barbie de v. Barbie
Boeach, misspelt for Lucach or Lochac, xvii
Book of dispatches, from Batavia, extract; instructions for the expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, 43
Bosphorus (Sepharat), meaning Spain, 10
Botany Bay, originally called Stingray, afterwards from the variety of plants, Botany Bay; not the Coste des Herbaiges on the early maps, xxxiv
Bowrey, captain, a copy of Tasman's map in his handwriting, xcvi
Brak, equipped for the expedition to New Guinea, 47
Breu, Antonio, going to Banda, in 1511, lx
Brosses, de, correcting Prevost's misstatement on the discovery of Carpentaria, c
Brazil, discovery by the Portuguese, xxxviii
Buscop, Franchoys, skipper, extract from his journal, on the "Trials," 187
Cabral, discovery of Brazil, xxxviii
Callemore, point of, on the South Land, 172
Calice, promontory, on the South Lana, 172
Cambodia, the Lochac of Marco Polo, xvi
Cano, Sebastian de, one of the commissioners appointed to decide about the right of possession of the Moluccas, xl
Cape Keer Weer, (turn again), the furthest point of New Guinea reached by the Duyfhen, lxxx
Cape York, the very large islands, seen by Torres, in 11° S. L., lxxv
Capitana, expedition under Quiros, 31; crew mutinous, 34 departs suddenly and treacherously, 38
Carpentaria, discovery falsely attributed to Carpenter, xcix; misstatement corrected, c; Dubois on Carpenter, cii
Carpenter, the supposed discoverer of Carpentaria, c
Carstens, Jan, despatched by J. P. Coen with the Pera and Arnhem from Amboina, murdered by the natives of New Guinea, lxxxvii, 44
Castanheda, narrative of the discovery of New Guinea, xlii
Casuaris, name Of the east point in the Roseboom's Bay, 168
Cecco d'Ascoli, map of, xiv
Ceira, name of New Guinea on the old Portuguese maps; mistake for Ceram, 97
Ceram Lauers, trade with the natives of New Guinea, 96
Ceramers v. Ceram Lauers
Charles V. sells his right to the Moluccas to John II, xli
Chastelijn, Cornelis, account of the discoveries, 165
Chinese, supposed to have been acquainted with Australia before the Europeans, xiv
Chucupin, island, 36
Clyn Amsterdam, expedition to New Guinea, 46
Coen, Jan Pietersz, despatches the Pera and Arnhem, lxxxvii
Collaert, Gerrit, captain of the Nijptang, 113
Cook, captain Dalrymple's insinuations, xxxi : established the separation between New Holland and New Guinea, xciv
Cornelis, Jerome, super cargo of the Batavia, conspiracy, 69; taken prisoner, 71; executed, 74
Cote dangereuse, in the old maps, xxxii, lvii
Cote des Herbaiges, in the old maps, xxxiv, lviii
Crawford, Pako, v. Pako
Crignon, Pierre, on Parmentier; lix, lxii
Dalrymple, Alexander, on Thevenot's map, xxxi; translation of Torres relation of Quiros' discoveries, 31
Dangerous coast, so called by Captain Cook, supposed to be the Cote dangereuse of the maps, xxxii, lvii
Dampier's voyage, cviii, cix, 99, 108, 134
De Brosses, v. Brosses
De Breu, Antonio, v. Breu
De Bandeira, Sa', Viscount, v. Bandeira
De Gonneville,B. Paulmier, v. Gonneville
De Legaspi, Lopez, v. Legaspi
Del Espiritu Santo, discovery, 37
Delft Bay, on the coast of New Holland, 172
Delft, Martin van, voyage, cxiii; extract from his logbook, 167
De Mendana, v. Mendana
De Meneses, v. Meneses
De Metz, Gauthier, v. Metz
De Saavedra, v. Saavedra
De Santarem, Vicomte, v. Santarem De Silva, Fray Juan, v. Silva
De Sequeira, Gomez, v. Sequeira
De Torres, Luis Vaez, v. Torres
De Villalobos, Ruy Lopez, v. Villalobos
De Vlamingh, v. Vlamingh
De Witt's Land, coasted by the Vianen, lxxxix
Dirk Hartog's Island, plate, lxxxi
Dirk Hartog's Roads, lxxxi
Dispatches, Book of, from Batavia, v. Book of Dispatches
Doriados, sloop, destined for the expedition to New Holland, disabled, 165
Dourados map, xxiii
Draeck, v. Vergulde Draeck
Du Bocage, Barbie, v. Barbie
Dubois, "Vies des Gouverneurs Generaux," on Carpentaria, cii
Dutch discoveries on the coast of Australia, lxxvii
Dutch East India Company, charged with exclusiveness, vi; defended, ix
Dutchmen, two, exposed by Pelsart, to be looked after, 50
Duyfhen, yacht, expedition to New Guinea; first authenticated discovery of the South Land, lxxix; discovery of the south and west coast of New Guinea, 43
Dwaers-in-den-wegh, island, 68
D'Waijer, sloop, discoveries, 165
Edel, commander of a ship visiting the coast of New Holland; discovery of Edel's Land on the west coast, lxxxvi
Eendraght, ship, discoveries, lxxxi, 44; pole with tin plate of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh, 115
Eendraght, land, 177
Elburgh, flyboat, touches the South Land, 87
Emeloort, galiot, sent in search of the Vergulde Draeck, 80; separated from the Waeckende Boey, 85
Esquivel, Juan de, assisted by Quiros and his force on one of the Ternate islands, 41
Ferdinand and Isabella, of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the line of demarcation, xx xviii
Fernandez, Juan, said to have discovered the southern continent, lxvi; discovers the track from Lima to Chili, 20
Fish, a remarkable, with a sort of arms and legs, 121
Flinders, Matthew, suggested the name of Australia, lxxviii, xcvii; on the account of Delft's voyage, cxv
Fortuyn, perhaps wrecked on the Abrolhos, 182
Four Hollanders' ships voyage; first voyage of the Dutch to the East Indies, lv
Franciscan order, undertakes the conversion of the southern hemisphere, 7
Franciscus, Monachus, Mappemonde, lxiii
Frederick Houtman's Abrolhos, v. Houtman's Abrolhos
French merchants send a ship to the Indies, xis
Geminus, speaks of a southern continent, xiii
Goede Hoop, yacht, joins the Witte Valck for the rescue of the wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, 78
Gonneville, Binot Paulmier de, the supposed first discoverer of New Holland, xx
Gouffre in the old maps, perhaps Oyster Bay in Tasmania, lxiii
Guanos with apparently two heads, 144
Gulde Zeepard, ship, discovery, 45
Gun island, off the Houtman's Abrolhos, 179.
Haarlem, wreck of, in Table Bay, 182 Hale, H. on Tobi island, xlviii
Hall, Bishop, Mundus alter and idem, lxxxiv
Hamelin, Captain of the Naturaliste, finds the tin plate of Vlamingh on Dirk Hartog's island, lxxxiii
Hammond, Captain of the Antelope, 134
Harewind, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, 44
Haring, yacht, dispatched for New Guinea, 44
Hartog, Dirk, discoveries, lxxxi
Hasagays, arms of the natives of New Guinea, 96
Heenhoven, ship, uncertainty about its destiny, 183
Hillegonde, ship, accident, 183
Holden, Horace, driven to the Isle of Tobi, xlix
Hondius, Jodocus, map, to illustrate the discoveries of Drake and Cavendish, lxviii
Hoop, brigantine, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijk, 186
Houtman, Frederick, gives the name to the Houtman's Abrolhos, lxxxvi
Houtman's Abrolhos, discovery, lxxxvi the Houtman's Abrolhos in 1727, by Leupe, 176
Instructions for the expedition for the discovery of New Guinea, 43
Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, agreement with Don John II, about the line of demarcation, xxxviii
Jacobus, Dutch ship, sees the Trials, 188
Jan de Bremen, of Pelsart's crew, confesses to have caused the assassination of twenty-seven persons, 72
Jave, la Grande, on the old maps, supposed to be Australia, lii
John II, agreement with Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, about the line of demarcation, xxxviii
John II buys the right to the Moluccas from Charles V, xli
Jonck, Aucke Pietersz, skipper of the Emeloort, account, 82
Judaeis, C. de, Speculum Orbis,
Kangaroo, first described by Dampier, cx
Kart, Pieter v. Pita Ka't
Kaijmanshoek, eastern point of the third inlet on the coast of New Holland, visited by the expedition in 1705, 171
Keer Weer, Cape, (turn again), furthest point reached on New Guinea, by the Duyfhen in 1606, 44
Kondur, island, described by Marco Polo, xv
Kuijle Eijland, projecting point on the west side of New Holland, 168
Lacca-iha, New Guinea, particularly ugly people, 97
Lants Welvaren, carries drawings, etc., from the expedition of Vlamingh, to the directors of the council, 113
Leeman, Abraham van Santwigh, upper steersman of the Vergulde Draeck, 82 : journal, 87
Leeuwin, ship, discovery, lxxxvi
Legaspi, Miguel Lopez de, established a Spanish colony at Zebu, lxx
Le Testu, Guillaume, map, xxxvi
Leupe, P. A., description of the Houtman's Abrolhos in 1727, 176
Lima, track to Chili, discovered by J. Fernandez, 20
Limmen, yacht, destined for a nearer discovery of New Guinea, 43; equipped for the expedition, 47
Lochac, described by Marco Polo, xv
Londe of Java, v. Jave
Lonton, promontory on the fifth inlet on the E. coast of New Holland, visited by the Vossenborde etc., in 1705, 172
Lopez de Legaspi, v. Legaspi
Lopez de Villalobos, Ruy, v. Villa-lobos
Lord North's island, the island on which Sequeira was driven, xlviii; description of the natives, xlii, xlix, 1
Louisiade, Torres touching at, lxxiv; description of the inhabitants, lxxv
Louwerens, Captain of the Jacobus, sees the Trials, 188
Lucach, v. Lochac
Luchtenburg, wreck on the Wielingen, 182
Macrobius, map of the world, tenth century, xiv
Magalhaens, Fernando, not the dis- coverer of Australia, xxi; offers his services to Spain, sails in search of the Moluccas, xxxix
Magellan, F. v. Magalhaens
Malaiur, island, supposed to be the kingdom of the Malays, xvi
Maleto, v. Maletur
Maletur, misspelt for Maleto, xvii; occurs on maps of the sixteenth century on or near the Terra Australis, lxiv, 98
Manilius, mentions the southern continent, xii
Marco Polo, map, xiv; account, supposed to refer to Australia, xv
Mare Lantchidol, misspelt for Laut Kidol, or Chidol, "South Sea," xvii
Maria, Santa, island, v. Santa Maria
Maria's Land, point at the Delft Bay; inhabitants very stupid, 172
Martin, Dr., on the map of Dourado, xxiii
Martinez, Joan, Portolano, lxiii
Matanza island, discovered by Torres, 35
Mauritius, ship, discoveries, lxxxvi; met by the expedition to New Guinea in 1622, 44
Meerlust, ship, 183
Mendana de Meyra, Alvaro de, discoveries of New Guadalcanal, San Christobal, etc., 17
Meneses, Jorge de, carried to New Guinea, lxiv
Mercator, Indications of Australia, lxvii
Metz, Frederic, refutes Dalrymple's insinuations against Cook, xxxi
Metz, Gauthier de, v. Gauthier
Meyenberg, ship, brings the cargo of the Middenrack and Stabroeck over to Batavia, 183
Mibais van Luyck, Gilles, first merchant of the Eendraght, lxxxi
Middenrack, wrecks against the Table Bay, 182
Milk-Sea, between Banda and the South Land, 97
Moluccas, dispute between the Portuguese and Spanish, xxxviii; commission appointed to, xxxix; right to them sold by Charles V to John II, xli
Monterez, Count of, vice-king of Peru, lxxii
Montbret, Coquebert, memoir in the "Bulletin de Sciences," xxxiv
Montanus, Arias, Mappemonde, lxv
Necquebar, v. Nicobar
New Guadalcanal, discovered by Mendana, 17
New Hebrides, the Terra Australis of Quiros, lxxii
New Guinea, discovery, iv; New Guinea and New Holland supposed to form parts of a southern continent, xi; made an island in Ortelius's 1587 edition, lxvii; expedition under Tasman, instructions, 43; the inhabitants, 52 description of the country and the natives, 91; their weapons, manners, etc., 92; the Ceramers, Papoos; further description of the country and its inhabitants, 95 seqq. New Guinea supposed to be divided from the South Land by a strait terminating in the South Sea; New Guinea in the old maps, under the name of Ceira (Ceram), 97
New Holland, v. Australia
Nibbens, Jan, communication about the Zeewijk, 179, 184
Nicobar, island, Dampier's canoe upsetting, all papers lost, 109
Nieuwvliet, carries the cargo of the wrecked Middenrack and Stabroeck to Batavia, 183
Nobbens, v. Nibbens
Nova Hollandia, patsjallang, discoveries, 165
Nuyts, land of, colony projected, cxv
Nuyts, Pieter, supposed commander of the Gulde Zeepard; country called after him, lxxxviii
Nijptang, hooker, under Captain Collaert; forms part of Vlamingh's expedition in 1696, 113
Obadiah; imputed prophecy concerning the conquest of the southern hemisphere by Spain, 9
Oero-goba, in New Guinea; inhabitants particularly ugly, 97
Olyftack, sloop, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijk, 186
Oranjes, Hoek, point at the inlet of the coast of New Holland visited by the expedition in 1705, 171
Os Papuos, v. New Guinea
Oyster bay, in Tasmania, lviii
Papoos, at New Guinea, 94
Parmentier, Jean, of Dieppe, voyage to Sumatra, lix
Paulmier de Gonneville, v. Gonneville
Pelsart, Francis, Captain of the Batavia, lxxxix; shipwreck, 59
Pelsart's group, off the Houtman's Abrolhos, 178
Pentam, island, xv; supposed to be Bintam, xvi
Pera, yacht, voyage to New Guinea 44
Petan, occurring on the old maps on or near the Terra Australis, lxiv
Philip III memorial to, by Arias, 1
Philippine islands, settlements attempted by the Spanish, lxx
Pietersen Pieters, v. Pietersz
Pietersz, Pieter, super cargo, takes the command of the expedition to New Guinea after Pool's death, discovers the coast of Arnhem or Van Diemen's Land, xciii, 46
Pinzon, Vincent Yanez, discoveries on behalf of Spain, xxxviii
Pita Ka't, gave the natives of Tobi island their form of religion, 1
Plancius, Peter, opens a school for the purpose of teaching the way to India, lxxviii
Poel, Gerrit Tomaz, v. Pool
Polonia, Sta., v. Santa Polonia
Pool, Gerrit Tomaz, expedition to New Guinea, killed by the natives, xcii, 46
Portuguese, conceal their discoveries, v, xlii; discover Brazil, xxxviii; their claim to the discovery of Australia, xxi, xxvi seqq,; had establishments in the East Indian Islands before 1529, lxi
Portuguese kings, prohibit the exportation of marine charts, v, vi
Portuguese names on the old French maps of New Holland, lix
Pronck, Hendrich, opinion on the expedition to New Holland, 117
Purry, J. P. Memoire sur le Pays des Caffres, etc.; project of founding a colony in Nuytsland, cxv
Quiros, Pedro Fernandez, chief pilot of Alvaro de Mendana, lxx; memoirs to L. de Velasco, lxxi; his Terra Australis is New Hebrides, lxxii; separated from the other two ships, reaches Mexico, lxxiv; addresses Philip H on account of further explorations, lxxvi; discoveries, 18; death, lxxvi, 19
Ramusio, on the secrecy of the Portuguese with respect to their discoveries, v
Ridderschap van Holland, de loss of, causes Vlamingh's expedition in 1696, 112, 114
Riviere de beaucoup d'Iles, xxxii, lvii
Roebuck, Dampier's expedition, cx
Roelandszoon, J. van Wijck, repudiates the charge of covetousness against the Dutch, vii
Roggeveen, expedition, cxvi
Roggeween, Jakob, passenger of the V aterland Getroun, 187
Roseboom, Andries, of the Waijer, logbook, 167
Roseboom's Bay, visited by the Vossenbosch, etc., 168
Rosemary Island, recently examined by Captain King, cxi; name given by Dampier, 154
Rotterdam, ship, searched after, 44
Roty, Jean, v. Rotz
Rotz, Jean, maps, xxix
Rustenburg, point at the fourth inlet on the coast of New Holland, visited by the expedition in 1705, 172
Saavedra, Don Alvaro de, lights on New Guinea, lxiv
Sadeur, Jacques (or Nicolas), "Avantures dans la découverte de la Terre Australe," cvi
Sago, biscuits made of, sold to the crew of Torres by Mahomedans, 40
Sahul Bank, seen by P. Heywood, cxiv
Sambava, occurs on all the MS. maps of the Great Java, liv
San Christobal island, discovered, 17
Sandy Bay, 162
San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern continent, 23; discovered, 37
Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de Meyra, 18
Santa Maria, discovered and named by Torres, 37
Santa Polonia, island, 32
Santarem, Vicomte de, "Essai sur l'histoire de la Cosmographie...du Moyen Age," xiii
San Valerio, island, 32
Sardam, frigate, 71
Schildpats island, 172
Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, 75; killed by the Southlanders, 76
Sea snakes seen by Dampier, 151
Sea, turning white, twice a-year, between Banda and the South Land, 97
Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, xlvi
Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, 95
Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, lx
Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, 1; extract, 2
Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186
Solomon islands, discovered by Mendana, lxx
Sondur island, xv
South Land, v. Australia
Southern continent, existence of, believed anterior to Portuguese discoveries, xiii
Southern India, of Gonneville, being Madagascar, xxi
Spain, claim to the discovery of Australia, xxi
Spult, island, discovery, 45
St. Brandan, island, ii
St. Paul, island, Vlamingh's expedition was to land there, 113
Sta. Maria, v. Santa Maria
Stabroeck, wreck, 182
Steyns, Jan, communication about the wreck of the Zeewijck, 179, 180; indicted before the court, 181
Strabo, speaks of a southern continent, xiii
Struyck, Nicholas, tract, containing an account of Dampier's voyage, 114
Swans, black, cviii, 114
Taomaco, island, 36
Tasman, Abel Janszen, discovers Tasmania, explores Torres Straits, xciii; his lost papers quoted by Witsen, xciv; outlines of the coasts visited by him, represented on the floor of the Stadhuis at Amsterdam, xcv; maps, xcvi; notes of his voyage by Witsen, xcviii; instructions for the expedition to New Guinea, 43; map found wrong by Dampier, 152
Temple, Sir William, on the secrecy of the Dutch about their discoveries, vi
Ternate, on the Moluccas, fortified, xxxvii
Testu, Guillaume le, v. Le Testu
Themara, Francisco, Libro de las costumbres, lxiv
Theopompus, mentions an island beyond the then known world, ii
Thevet, "Cosmographie Universelle," 1575, lxvi
Tierra baiza, lxviii
Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Magelhaens, xxvi; mistaken for New Guinea, ib.
Tin plate, with the names of Dirk Hartog and others of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh's expedition, 130
Toppors-hoetien, island, 68
Tomai, the chief of Taomaco, 36
Tobi island, v. Lord North's island
Torres, Luis Vaez de, commander of the Almirante, lxxiii; discoveries, 20; relation of the discoveries of Quiros, 31
Torres' Straits, name, lxxii; passed by Tasman, xcii
Trial Rocks, opinions on, 186
Tristan d'Acunha, drawing of; Vlamingh's expedition was to land there, 113, 119
Turtledove, shoal, 177
Vaderland, Getrouw, s', extract from the skipper's journal, 187
Valerio, San, v. San Valerio
Vallard, Nicholas, MS. Atlas with his name, xxxv
Van Diemen, Antonio, on the Houtman's Abrolhos, 187
Van Diemen's Land, so named from the governor-general, xciii; northwest corners explored by the Vossenbosch expedition, 166
Van Keulen, map, xcvi
Van Wijck Roelandszoon, v. Roelandszoon
Varckenshoeck, west point of Rooseboom's Bay, 168
Vaz Dourado, map, xxiii
Veerman, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186
Vergulde Draeck, expedition, cv; wreck, 77
Vianen, ship, discovery, lxxxix, 45
Villalobos, Ruy Lopez de, attempting a settlement on the Philippine islands, lxx
Vinck, flyboat, in search of the Vergulde Draeck, 79
Virgenes, islands, 32
Visser, Chief pilot with Tasman, instructions 43
Vlamingh, Cornelis de, captain of the Weseltje, 113
Vlamingh, Willem de, voyage, cviii, 111; inscription on the plate on Dirk Hartog's island, lxxxi
Volckersen, Samuel, captain of the Waeckende Boey, account, 89
Vossenbosch Bay, on the coast of New Holland, 172
Vossenbosch, fluyt, discoveries, 165 seqq.
Waeckende Boey, sent in search of the wreck of the Vergulde Draeck, cv, 80; loses boat, schuyt, and fourteen men, 84
Water serpents, seen by Dampier, 148
Wesel, yacht, expedition to New Guinea, 46
Weseltje, galiot, unsuccessful expedition to the island of Mony, 116
Weasel, shallop, 75
Weybehays, fighting against Cornelis, 70; takes him prisoner, 71
Wielingen, the, on the Zeeland Bank, 182
Witsen, Burgomaster, his notes the only account of Tasman's voyage, xcviii; extract from his "Noord en Oost Tartarye," 91
Witte Valck, sent to the rescue of the men and specie of the Vergulde Draeck, 78
Wytflie, Cornelius, on "Australis Terra," lxix
Wijck J. Roelandszoon, van, v. Roelandszoon
Zeachen, (ship Zeehaen), supposed native of Arnheim made discoverer of Arnheim's Land, lxxxv
Zebu, Spanish colony founded at, lxx
Zeehaen, ship, lxxxv
Zeemeuw, yacht, destined for the discovery of New Guinea, 43, 47
Zeewijck, wreck, 176; remains found, 179; communication respecting the wreck, 179
Zeewijk, channel, 179
Zuysdorp, wreck, 178