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first voyage, of which we have knowledge, that might have 

 discovered Australia, and that actually did discover the 



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Solomon Islands. It may, I believe, be affirmed with 

 confidence that we have no news of any voyage in the 



PART OF REINEL'S CHART, c. 1517. 

 (From an engraving in Recueil de Travaux, etc., Universite de Gand.) 



sixteenth century at all likely to have led to knowledge of 

 any part of the Australian coast. And this fact seems to 



