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I am especially indebted to Mr. Wright for help in the 

 study of Banks's Journal, the treasure of the Mitchell. 



In spite of the excellence of the Mitchell Library there 

 are some historical materials which cannot be used in 

 Sydney. I have tried to indicate the parts of the dis- 

 cussion in which, for this reason, my equipment is imperfect, 

 and I have had to take facts from the books of modern 

 writers. 



Of these books, that which, perhaps, was most useful to 

 me was Rainaud's Le Continent Austral. I have con- 

 tinually had at hand the fascinating and most helpful 

 volumes of Fiske's Discovery of America. Mr. Major's 

 Introduction to the Early Voyages to Australia was of great 

 service. I wish to express my special obligation to Mr. 

 George Collingridge, whose Discovery of Australia first made 

 the subject of interest to me, and whose maps especially 

 are very useful. Though I differ in opinion from Mr. 

 Collingridge in respect to the interpretation of the early 

 maps, I am aware that his study of these maps, and especi- 

 ally of the Portuguese-French maps, has been more minute 

 than mine ; and I hope we may agree that, groping in a 

 fog, we are both guessers. It has been a peculiar pleasure to 

 plunder the admirable volumes of my old friend Professor 

 Beazley on the Dawn of Modern Geography ; a pleasure 

 mingled with fear that I have not got from them all that 

 I ought to have got. In telling the Spanish story, I 

 have used the translations in the admirable editions 

 published by the Hakluyt Society. In the Dutch part, 

 the English student must be mainly dependent on the 

 help of Mr. Heeres. In the discussion of Cook, Admiral 

 Wharton and Mr. Kitson have had the use of material 

 which cannot be used in Sydney. In the chapter on the 

 " Successors of Cook," I have continually used the books 

 of Professor Scott of Melbourne, who has kindly read my 

 chapter. 



