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INDEX 



436 : describes Great Barrier 

 Reef, 437 : extract from manu- 

 script journal, 443 : his opinion 



of Australia, 444-447 : at 

 Batavia, 452-453 : at the Cape, 

 454 : returns to England, 455 : 

 prepares for another voyage, 

 459, but does not sail, 460 : 

 Cook and Banks, 461-462 : 

 President of the Royal Society, 

 500 : Banks and Flinders, 500- 

 503 : portrait by Phillips, 501. 



Barrier Reef : Cook meets it, 

 428 : is spiked, 428 : sails 

 through, 436 : is nearly 

 wrecked on, 437 : Banks's 

 description, 437 : Cook sails 

 through again, 438 : threaded 

 by Flinders, 517. 



Barros, Juan de : on ignorance of 

 the South of Java, 83 : on the 

 strong current in the Strait of 

 Lombok, 115. 



Bass, George : to Sydney in the 

 Reliance, 487 : explores South 

 coast in Tom Thumb, 487-488 : 

 voyage in the whale-boat, 488- 



494 : discovers Western Port, 



491 : shows a strait probable, 



492 : circumnavigates Van 

 Diemen's Land with Flinders, 

 495-499 : at Port Dalrymple, 



495 : Strait, 496 : Storm Bay, 



497- 



Bass's Strait : Cook misses it, 

 411 : Furneaux thinks there is 

 no strait, but Bayley thinks 

 there is, 465 : Hunter thinks 

 there is, 484, 489 : Bass shows 

 a strait is extremely probable, 

 492 : Flinders and Bass sail 

 through it, 496. 



Batavia, capital of Java : its 

 foundation, 215 : Dampier at, 

 37 33. 335 : Bougainville at, 

 378 : Cook and Banks at, 449- 



453- 

 Batavia, the : Pelsart wrecked in, 



249. 



Baudin, Nicholas : 

 authorised, 506 : 

 509 : he sails, 

 West Australia, 

 Tasmania, 512 : 

 " unknown coast, 

 Flinders, 513, 

 Napoleon, 516. 



Beach : see Locac. 



Beazley, Professor 

 Dawn of Modern 



his voyage 

 its motives, 

 511 : coasts 

 512 : visits 

 explores the 

 ' 512 : meets 

 515 : Terre 



C. R. : his 



Geography, x : 



pictures showing the concep- 

 tions of Cosmas, 10-11 : 

 describes the medieval views 

 of Antipodes, 14-15 : describes 

 Arabian voyages, 26-28 : map 

 showing geographical know- 

 ledge of Arabians, 27 : describes 

 Chinese voyages, 29 : describes 

 Christian missions in Asia, 47- 

 48 : praises Friar Odoric, 48-49. 

 Beck?t, Thomas : publishes a 

 journal of Cook's first voyage, 



385- 



Bede : on the right use of pagan 

 knowledge, 15. 



Behaim, Martin : misunderstands 

 Marco Polo and other travellers, 

 44-45, 57-58 : his globe, 55 

 (map). 



Bermudez, Luis de Belmonte : 

 Cjuiros's secretary, 145-146 : his 

 poem, 178 : his explanation of 

 Cjuiros's failure to anchor, 183- 

 184 : his criticism of Cjuiros's 

 over- kindness, 187. 



Bligh, William : rows from Tahiti 

 to Timor, 482 note : sails 

 through Torres Strait, 482, 486. 



Botany Bay : discovered by Cook, 

 413 : Cook's map, 414 : ex- 

 plored and described, 413-425 : 

 Banks's opinion of, 423 : Cook's, 

 423-424 ; Hunter's, 424 note i : 

 Phillip's, 425 ; White's, 425 

 and note 4 ; Tench's, 425 notes 

 i and 4 ; Ross's, 425 note 4 ; 

 Peron's, 425 note 4 ; King's, 

 425 note 2 : at first called 

 Stingray Harbour, 418-422 : 

 Banks recommends convict 

 colonisation at, 422 : Phillip 

 and Laperouse at, 507 and 

 notes. 



Bougainville, Louis Antoine, 

 Comte de : Aide-de-Camp of 

 Montcalm, 366 : colonises Falk- 

 land Islands, 368 : his voyage 

 round the world, 369-379 : vain 

 search for Terra Australis, 370 : 

 Tahiti, 370 : Samoa, 371 : New 

 Hebrides, 371 : Cape Deliver- 

 ance, 375 : the Solomons, 375 : 

 New Britain, 376 : Batavia, 

 378 : his later plans, 458, 509. 



Bouvet, Lozier : seeks the land of 

 Gonneville, 346 : discovers the 

 Cape of the Circumcision, 347 : 

 influenced by Quiros, 348. 



Bowen, John : sails into Port 

 Phillip, 505-506. 



