WAS AUSTRALIA KNOWN ? 



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welcome. And thus he turned away, without having 

 other glory, bestowing on her his everlasting name." 1 

 And yet Ortelius, with these facts in mind, is not afraid 

 to draw with firm hand a great full-length continent, 

 extending all round the world from Tierra del Fuego to 

 New Guinea about whose insularity he also is uncertain 



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PART OF ORTELIUS'S MAP, 1570. (From Nordenskiold's Facsimile Atlas.) 



and from New Guinea to Tierra del Fuego. 2 And of this 

 huge outline all that had been " discovered " were " two 

 or three straits " in Tierra del Fuego and in New Guinea ; 

 the rest remained " unknown " behind the dusky veil of 

 the blushing nymph ! 



There is one other map of this type that I will mention, 

 because it, and the treatise that accompanies the atlas 



" Non pas trop loin dela peut on voir le visage 

 D'une autre Nymphe, encore incognue et sauvage. 

 L'on dit, que seulement Magellanus un jour 

 En sa bouche une fois la baisoit par amour, 

 Sans taster plus avant ses membres incognuz, 

 Ignorant s'ilz sont noirs, blancs, tonduz ou veluz. 

 Mais bien il s'en doutoit, par les flammes de feu, 

 Qu'a 1'entour d'elle il veit, de n'estre bien venu, 

 Et se retourne ainsi, sans avoir autre gloire, 

 En luy donnant son nom d'eternelle memoire." 

 2 See Map on this page. 



