O INTRODUCTION TO 



Grondt in 15 South latitude, and 143 10' West 

 longitude ; Waterland, in 14 46' South, and 

 144 10' West; and, twenty-five leagues westward 

 of this, Fly island, in latitude 15 20';. Traitor's 

 and Cocos islands, in latitude 15 43' S. longitude 

 173 13' W. Two degrees more to the westward, 

 the Isle of Hope ; and, in the latitude of 14 5& 

 South, longitude 179 30' East, Horn island. 



They next coasted the north side of New Britain 

 and New Guinea, and arrived at Batavia in October, 

 1616. 



Except some discoveries on the western and 

 northern coasts of New Holland, no important 

 voyage to the Pacific Ocean was undertaken till 1642, 

 when Captain Tasman sailed from Batavia, with two 

 ships belonging to the Dutch East India Company, 

 and discovered Van Diem en's Land ; a small part 

 of the western coast of New Zealand ; the 

 Friendly Isles ; and those called Prince William's. 



Thus far I have thought it best not to interrupt 

 the progress of discovery in the South Pacific Ocean, 

 otherwise I should before have mentioned, that Sir 

 Richard Hawkins in 1594, being about fifty leagues 

 to the eastward of the river Plate, was driven by 

 a storm to the eastward of his intended course, and 

 when the weather grew moderate, steering towards 

 the Straits of Magalhaens, he unexpectedly fell in 

 with land ; about sixty leagues of which he coasted, 

 and has very particularly described. This he 

 named Hawkins's Maiden Land, in honour of his 

 royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth, and says it lies some 

 threescore leagues from the nearest part of South 

 America. 



This land was afterwards discovered to be two 

 large islands by Captain John Strong, of the Fare- 

 well, from London, who, in 1689, passed through 

 the Strait which divides the eastern from the west- 

 ern of those islands. To this Strait he gave the 

 name of Falkland's Sound, in honour of his patron, 



