Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.

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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. Vallard, of Dieppe, in 1547, xxxv; Gomez de Sequeira, xliii, 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, lxxix; 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, lxxxix; 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 Santiago, 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 Land 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 manatee 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, rotganzen, 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 patsjallang, 172; the Houtman’s Abrolhos, 176

Bachian islands, king of, assisted by Quiros’ force, 41

Bandeira, Viscount Sa’ de, claim for the discovery of Australia by Magalhaens, xxii

Barbié de Bocage, notice of a hydrographical 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, Barbié de _v._ Barbié

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 Prévost’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 Land, 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

Chucupia, island, 36

Clyn Amsterdam, expedition to New Guinea, 46

Coen, Jan Pietersz, dispatches 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

Côte dangereuse, in the old maps, xxxii, lvii

Côte 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 Côte 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

Dourado’s map, xxiii

Draeck, _v._ Vergulde Draeck

Du Bocage, Barbié, _v._ Barbié

Dubois, “Vies des Gouverneurs Généraux,” 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-inden-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, xxxviii

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, xix

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, lviii

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

Judæis, C. de, Speculum Orbis, lxviii

Kangaroo, first described by Dampier, cx

Kart, Pieter _v._ Pita Ka’t

Kaijmans-hoek, 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 Vossenbosch etc., in 1705, 172

Lopez de Legaspi, _v._ Legaspi

Lopez de Villalobos, Ruy, _v._ Villalobos

Lord North’s island, the island on which Sequeira was driven, xlviii; description of the natives, xlii, xlix, l

Louisiade, Torres touching at, lxxiv; description of the inhabitants, lxxv

Louwerens, Captain of the Jacobus, sees the Trials, 188

Lucach, _v._ Lochac

Luchtenberg, wreck on the Wielingen, 182

Macrobius, map of the world, tenth century, xiv

Magalhaens, Fernando, not the discoverer 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 Kìdol, 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

Mendaña 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

Monterey, 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 Guide 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. Mémoire sur le Pays des Caffres, etc.; project of founding a colony in Nuyts-land, 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 II 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

Rivière 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 Vaderland Getrouw, 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