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THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 



that there were no vermin ; " but in the day-time one 

 is terribly tormented with the flies." Thus wrote one 



SKETCH OF VLAMINGH'S CHART, 1696-97. 

 (From an engraving in Heeres' Part borne by the Dutch.) 



of the first boatful of Europeans who rowed up the Swan 



River, and visited the site of Perth. 



Then Vlamingh sailed North, making careful surveys, 

 The badness and landing here and there. Everything he saw was 

 Australia very bad : " the soil dry and sandy, and but little adapted 



for the habitation of animals, still less of men " ; "a 



