INDEX 



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Java, 44-45 : really Siam, 46 : 

 Beach a misprint, 45, 108 note 

 2 : on Linschoten's map, 85 : 

 on Mercator's map, 91, 108 : 

 on Plancius's map, 107 : on 

 Ortelius's map, in : on Goos- 

 Visscher's map, 233 : on 

 Houdius's map, 241 : Houtman 

 discovers Beach, 45, 230 : Vis- 

 scher urges a search for Beach, 

 260. 

 Lucach : see Locac. 



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M'Nab, Robert : on Tasman's 

 place of anchorage, 276 note ^ : 

 on the name Poverty Bay, 402 

 note i : on the contiguity of 

 Cook and Surville, 458 note i. 



Madagascar : Javan voyages to, 

 22 : Arabian voyages to, 26 : 

 Sinbad's flight from, 26, 38 : 

 Marco Polo's description, 37 : 

 the rue, 37. 



Magellan, Ferdinand : his friend- 

 ship with Serrano, 68 : Serrano 

 tells him of " another new 

 world " in the Moluccas, 69 : 

 he passes through the Straits of 

 Magellan, 74, 99 : killed in the 

 Philippines, 74 : his voyage 

 excites new ambitions in Cortes, 

 76 : geographers believe that 

 Magellan has discovered a 

 " bashful " continent, 105, 109- 

 iii, 113. 



Magellan, Straits of : passed by 

 Magellan, 74 ; by Loaysa and 

 del Cano, 77, 82 : route aban- 

 doned, 86, 112-113 : passed by 

 Drake, 141 ; by Byron, Wallis 

 and Carteret, 368 ; by Bougain- 

 ville, 369. x 



Magellanica : used by de Brosses 

 of the South Atlantic, 353. 



Magellanican Continent : name 

 given to Terra Australis by 

 Mercator, 93, 105 ; and Orte- 

 lius, 109, no, in. 



Major, Richard Henry : his Early 

 Voyages to Australia, x : on 

 the misprint of Beach for 

 Locach, 108 note 2 : his inter- 

 pretation of the Portuguese- 

 French maps, 117-118, 122, 124, 

 126. 



Malacca : described by Varthema, 

 53 : conquered by Albu- 

 querque, 67 : Columbus seeks 



it, 71, 73 ; Cortes, 73 ; Ves- 

 pucci, 73 : Schoner's views, 73, 

 98 (map) : Schoner thinks 

 Terra A ustralis approaches 

 Malacca, 99 and note : con- 

 quered by the Dutch, 216. 



Malays : their character, 22 : 

 probably visited Australia, 22- 

 23 : traded with Indians, 

 Arabians, Chinese, 23-24 ; who 

 also visited Malay Islands, 24- 

 29 : described by Varthema, 

 53 : did Malays give Portu- 

 guese information about Aus- 

 tralia ?, 127. 



Malepur, S. Thome, St. Thomas : 

 its' position described by de 

 Conti, 51 : on map of 1489, 56, 

 57 (map) ; on map of Behaim, 

 55 (map), 56. 



Maletur : position in Mercator's 

 map, 91 (map), 108. 



Maoris : described by Tasman, 

 276-278, 280 ; by Cook, 402, 

 403, 408, 464, 466, 470-471, 



475- 



Maria, wife of Van Diemen, 262 : 

 Tasman gives her name to 

 Maria Island, 275, Cape Maria, 

 280, Maria Bay, 282. 



Marion du Fresne, Nicolas Thomas: 

 his search for the Southern 

 Continent, 458, 463, 506 : mur- 

 dered in New Zealand, 471. 



Markham, Sir Clement : his 

 edition of Quiros's Voyages, 

 140, 155 : his translation used, 

 140-207 : his translation of 

 Bermudez' poem, 178. 



Marquesas, the : discovered by 

 Mendana, 147 : visited by 

 Cook, 468 ; by R. L. Stevenson, 

 147, 468. 



Martyr, Peter : rejoices in know- 

 ledge of Antipodes, 73. 



Matra, James Mario : sails as 

 James Magra on the Endeavour, 

 429 note 2 : Cook's opinion of 

 him, 429 note 2 : Cook's auto- 

 graph note about him in margin 

 of Journal, 383, 429 note 2 : 

 was he the author of Journal of 

 a Voyage Round the World ?, 

 385 : his belief that New South 

 Wales will produce spices, 323 

 note. 



Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau 

 de : letter to Frederick the 

 Great on the interest of the 

 South Sea, 348-349. 



