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N E W H O L L A N D. 



to the eflimate of onr later navigators) to all Europe. I fee no 

 reafon why it flioiilcl not be called a fifth continent ; America 

 itlelf is but an infiilated continent, fuperior as it maybe to that 

 of 'Nezv Holland. 

 Discovered 1n tracing the difcovery of that immenfe region, I fliall begin 



IN 1618. ^^ ^^^ ^^^^ northern extremity, oppofite to the illes of Arrou. 



The name it bears in that part is Arnheim\ Land,, and the dif- 

 covery fixed in the year i6i8. I fhall proceed to the weftern 

 fide, and then furround the country till I arrive at the point 

 J am now leaving. 

 Dampier'sBay, In Lat. 16° 50' foiith, 119° Eaft Long, from London, is land 



BY DaMPIER in , . ^__, , . T^ • ^ ^ 



i68;J. difcovered m 1688 by our great navigator Z)^;;«f/>/^r *. Geo- 



graphers have not even honored the fpot with a name ; I will 

 therefore ftyle it Bampief^ Bay. Our countryman took his de- 

 parture from T/Mor, and pafling by a fhoal of fand and rock in 

 Lat. 13° 50', in water fo deep that he could not fathom it with 

 his line, on "January 5th he anchored in a deep bay, full of 

 fmall iflands, about two miles from fliore. The land was low 

 and even ; with dunes at the water eSge fkirted with rocky 

 points. 



Natives. The inhabitants were the moft miferable our countrymen ever 



faw ; without anycloathing, except the rudeft cover for their na- 

 kednefs, confifting of nothing more than the flip of the rind of 

 a tree for a girdle, and a little grafs fluffed into it before as an 

 apron. They were tall, ftrait, and thin, their limbs very 

 fmall and long; their heads large, their foreheads round; they 

 had great bottle nofes, wide mouths, full lips, and their eyes 



. * Voyages, i. 462. 



perpetually 



