THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 



temperate zone, felt bound also to deny that this world 

 might possibly contain human inhabitants. " Beyond the 

 three parts of the world," wrote Isidore, "there is a fourth 

 part in the South, across the interior ocean, in whose bounds 

 the antipodes are fabulously said to live " ; a phrase 

 destined to be quoted again and again, and to be illustrated 

 by a whole cycle of maps. 1 



Beyond the 

 three parts of 

 the world 

 there is a 

 fourth part 

 across the 

 interior ocean, 

 unknown to 

 us on account 

 of the heat of 

 the sun, in 

 whose bounds 

 the Antipodes 

 are fabulously 

 said to live. 



But people 

 still tell 

 stories of 

 marvels in 

 the South. 



TWELFTH-CENTURY MAP. (From Nordenskiold's Facsimile Atlas, p. 33.) 



And yet the knowledge of ancient times was never 

 wholly forgotten ; though part was forgotten, and " part 

 seemed to be in a sort of limbo, on this side of Lethe, 

 not altogether out of sight, but out of touch of the 

 new times, uncared for, unattended to." 2 The scientific 



1 See maps of the eighth and twelfth centuries printed in this volume, 

 pp. 13 and 14. 



2 Beazley. 



