30 THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 



Australia that knowledge came by way of Java. If Arabs, 

 Hindoos or Chinese had heard aught of the great land 

 of the South they must have heard it from the Malays 

 of that, island. And we shall find that, when we ask 

 the question, what did European travellers know about 

 Australia ? we have at the same time to ask the question, 

 what did they know about Java ? 



