CONTENTS 



VOL. I 

 CHAPTER PAGB 



I. INTRODUCTION ...... I 



II. AUSTRALIA DISTINCT FROM NEW GUINEA. 



MAGELHAEN, QUIROS AND TORRES . . 6 



III. VOYAGE OF THE " DUYFKEN " TO NEW GUINEA 



AND THE CAPE YORK PENINSULA, 1605-6 . 23 



IV. THE VOYAGE OF THE " PERA " AND " AERNEM," 



1623 : I. THE SAILING ORDERS . . 28 



V. THE VOYAGE OF THE " PERA " AND " AERNEM," 

 1623, continued : II. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 

 ON THE EXPEDITION AND ON THE " PERA " 

 NARRATIVE . . . . . .32 



VI. THE VOYAGE OF THE " PERA " AND " AERNEM," 



1623, continued : III. THE OUTWARD VOYAGE 35 



VII. THE VOYAGE OF THE " PERA " AND " AERNEM," 

 1623, continued : IV. THE RETURN VOYAGE 

 OF THE " PERA " . . . 45 



VIII. THE VOYAGE OF THE " PERA " AND " AERNEM," 



1623, continued : V. THE " AERNEM " . 59 



IX. TASMAN'S VOYAGE OF 1644 61 



X. VOYAGES OF THE " BUIJS " AND " RIJDER," 



1756 : VAN ASSCHENS AND GONZAL . . 75 



XL COOK IN " ENDEAVOUR," 1770 ... 82 



XII. QUIROS, TORRES AND COOK AND THE VAUGONDY 



AND DALRYMPLE MAPS .... 92 



XIII. BLIGH : VOYAGE OF " BOUNTY'S " LAUNCH, 1789 97 



