INDEX 



533 



356 ; by Callender, 360 : Car- 

 teret discovers straits between 

 New Britain and New Ireland, 

 369 : Bougainville's bad luck, 



377- 



New Caledonia : discovered by 

 Cook, 470 : reason of name, 

 444 note, 470. 



New Cythera : see Tahiti. 



New Guinea, Papua : discovered 

 by Meneses, 77 ; and by Saa- 

 vedra, 77, 78 : called Papua, 78, 

 79 ; and New Guinea, 79 : 

 called " a large island," 82 : 

 on Mercator's map, 91 (map), 

 93, 105-106 : on Plancius's 

 map, 107 (map) : on Ortelius's 

 map, in : on Wytfliet's map, 

 112 : various views as to the 

 strait, 105-106 : Quiros fears 

 " the Southern side," 189 : 

 ^orres coasts the Southern side, 

 194-197 : Arias's statement, 

 106, 361 note ; read by Dal- 

 rymple, 361, 363 (map), 411, 

 441 : Schouten fears Southern 

 coast, and sails Northern coast, 

 222 ; Tasman. does the same, 

 283-284 : Dampier on Northern 

 coast, 329-330 ; discovers New 

 Britain, and Dampier Strait, 

 329-330, 331 (map) : Woodes 

 Rogers and Dampier off New 

 Guinea, 335 : Campbell's map, 

 343 ; he suggests exploration, 

 345 : de Brasses' views, 356 : 

 Dalrymple's map, 363 : Boug- 

 ainville's danger at the South- 

 East, 374 ; he sails the North 

 coaft, 377 : Cook on the South 

 coast, 448. 



New Hebrides : discovered by 

 Quiros, 1 68 ; named by him 

 Austrialia del Bspiritu Santo, 

 174 : visited by Bougainville, 

 371-372 : named by him Cycla- 

 des, 372 : Cook proves not part 

 of New Holland, 432 : visited by % 

 Cook, 469-470. 



New Holland : Tasman's inscrip- 

 tion The Company's Nieuv 

 Nederland, 289 note 5, 290 : 

 Dampier writes Nova Hollandia, 

 and New Holland, 314 and note. 



New Jerusalem : founded by 

 Quiros, 171. 



New South Wales : why did Cook 

 give the name?, 442 and note 5. 



New Zealand : discovered by 

 Tasman, 275 



named Staten 



Land, 278 : later named New 

 Zealand, 278 note : explored 

 by Tasman, 275-280 : explored 

 by Cook, 401-408 : visited by 

 Surville, 458 and note i ; and 

 by Cook, 463-464, 466, 470-471, 

 475 ; visited by Marion, 471. 



Nicobar Islands : described by 

 Marco Polo under name Necu- 

 veran, 43, 46 : by Odoric under 

 name of Nicoveran, 49, 50 : 

 on Behaim's map as Neucuram, 

 55 (map), 58 : visited by 

 Dampier, 318. 



Nicoveran : see Nicobar Islands. 



Nuestra Senora del Socorro, or 

 Taumaco : discovered by Quiros, 

 165. 



Nuyts, Hon. Peter : on board 

 Gulden Seepaart at discovery of 

 Nuyts Land, 245. 



Nuyts Land : discovered, 245- 

 248 : Purry proposes colonisa- 

 tion, 338-339 : Dentrecasteaux 

 explores, 246-247, 484, 508 : 

 Flinders explores, 247-248, 513. 



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Ochoa, Juan : Quiros's Chief 

 Pilot, 162 : causes trouble, and 

 is handed to Torres, 164. 



Odoric, Friar : his Journal, 48 : 

 describes Sumatra and Java, 

 48 ; Panten, Mare Mortuum, 

 Campa, Nicobars, Ceylon and 

 China, 49 : his truthfulness, 

 50 : influence on map-makers, 

 56-58. ' 



Ortelius, Abraham : his views 

 about the Magellanican Con- 

 tinent, 109-111, (map) in. 



Otaheite : see Tahiti. 



Panten : see Pentam. 



Papua : see New Guinea. 



Paradise, terrestrial, Garden of 

 Eden : its position according 

 to Cosmas, 9 : map of the 

 twelfth century, 13 : Dante, 

 1 8, 72 : Roger Bacon, 18 : 

 Columbus, 72 : Vespucci, 73 : 

 map of 1522, 103 (map), 104. 



Parkinson, Sydney : his Journal, 

 385, 453 : his opinion of land 

 at Botany Bay, 416 note : uses 

 the name Botany Bay, 422 

 note : his death, 453. 



