The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

the Netherlanders on the mainland coast of Australia, it might be desirable so to adjust these periods, that each of th

Itinerario, imparted to his countrymen what he knew about the Far East; and it would conclude with the discovery of Torres Strait by the Spaniards in 1606, a few m

the world, to the year in which the English ship Trial was dashed to pieces on a rock to westward of the west-coast of Australia; the discovery of th

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importance undertaken by the English, when in 1688 William Dampier touched at the north-west coast of Australia. This period embraces the very fam

, and Maerten van Delft's of 1705; Gonzal's expedition (1756) is not quite without significance, but the results obtained in these voyages will not bear comparison with those achieved by the expeditions of the preceding period. Besides this, the English navigato

nto chronological periods. The desire of being clear has, however, led me to adopt another mode of treatment in this In