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Klappentext An 1859 compilation of source material on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European exploration in the Southern Ocean, including Australia. Zusammenfassung The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. This compilation by R.H. Major (published 1859) brings together various manuscript and published sources which provide a picture of European exploration in the Southern Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; A memorial addressed to His Catholic Majesty Philip the Third, King of Spain Juan Luis Arias; Relation of Luis Vaez de Torres, concerning the discoveries of Quiros; 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 Samuel Volkersen; 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 1686-87; Extract from Sloan MS., 3236, entitled 'The Adventures of William Dampier'; Some particulars relating to the voyage of Willem de Vlamingh to New Holland in 1696; Extract from the journal of a voyage made to the unexplored South Land, by order of the Dutch East India Company, in the years 1696 and 1697; Account of the observations of Captain William Dampier on the coast of New Holland, in 1699; A written detail of the discoveries and noticeable occurrences in the voyage of the fluyt 'Vossenbosch', the sloop 'D'Waijer', and the patsjallang 'Nova Hollandia', despatched by the government of India, anno 1705; The Houtman's Abrolhos in 1727 P. A. Leupe.
