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in his great work, The Life of TasmanJ- describes it as having been 

 " drawn up immediately after the (1644) expedition and under the 

 eye of Tasman himself." It may, indeed, be a copy of the chart 

 forwarded with the Report by the Governor-General and Council 

 at Batavia to the Directors in Holland. It was reproduced by 

 JACOB SWART in his Journaal van de Reis nar het Onbekende Zuidland 

 in den Jare 1642 door Abel Janszoon Tasman (Amsterdam, 1860), 

 and HEERES, in his Life of Tasman gives a version of it, with the 

 place-names and other inscriptions translated into English. 



The names along the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula in 

 the charts reproduced by Swart and Heeres are as in Column I of 

 the table below, and the latitudes as in Columns II and III ; but 

 the small scale of the map, together with a " personal equation " 

 resulting from mechanical differences in drawing between the two 

 maps, makes it impossible, in some cases, to be certain of the posi- 

 tions indicated within a few minutes of latitude. 



1 The full title is : A bel Janszoon Tasman' s Journal, of his Discovery of Van Diemen's 

 Land and New Zealand in 1642, with Documents relating to his Exploration of Australia 

 in 1644, being Photo-lithographic Fac-Similes of the Original Manuscript in the Colonial 

 Archives of the Hague, with an English Translation and Fac-Similes of Original Maps ; 

 To which are added Life and Labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman, by J. E. Heeres, LL.D., 

 Professor at the Dutch Colonial Institute, Delft, and Observations made with the Compass 

 on Tasman' s Voyage by Dr. W. Van Bemmelen, Assistant Director of the Royal Meteoro- 

 logical Institute, Utrecht. Amsterdam, 1898. 



It is almost needless to say that the greater part of the facts quoted in this chapter 

 relating to Tasman's voyage are borrowed from this exhaustive work, for which Professor 

 Heeres is peculiarly qualified not only because of the exceptional opportunities enjoyed 

 by him for obtaining access to the original documents, but also because of his critical 

 and judicial mind. He is, however, not at all responsible for the views and comments 

 herein. I may claim, perhaps, better opportunities for access to Australian documents 

 and charts. R. L. J. 



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