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venient place for obtaining water and other refreshments in 
about lat. 26° to lat. 28° 8. Instructie voor den E. Command. 
Gerrit Thomasz Pool. (Swart’s Journaal van Tasman’s Reis. 
bl. 36.) This was probably a stereotyped order to the leaders 
of these expeditions; it occurs again in the Instructions of 
Tasman, 1644. 
To prevent misapprehension, let me state that the maps 
to which reference is made in association with the names 
Tasman and Visscher are (1) that map which was draughted by 
order of Van Diemen in 1644 for the purpose of illustrating, 
in a connected sketch, the discoveries of the Dutch in New 
Holland, and theadjacent islands; (Vide Proceedings R. S. 
Tas. 1884. p. 262.) (2) a map said to be the work of Francois 
Jacobsz Visscher, Tasman’s chief pilot, a copy of which, taken 
as is supposed, by Captain Thomas Bowrey about the year 
1687, is reproduced in Major’s Harly Voyages to Terra 
Australis, p. xevii. The (8) map referred to is that which was 
inlaid in the floor of the Groote Zaal of the Amsterdam 
Stadhuys, and which is reproduced in Thévenot’s Relation de 
divers voyages, 1*° partie, 1663, and elsewhere. 
There are considerable discrepancies in these maps re- 
earding the geographical position of Hdel’s Iand ard the 
date of its discovery. 'Tasman’s map has a stippled outline, 
extending from about lat. 30° S to lat. 32° 8, opposite to 
which on the landward side is placed the legend ‘i.d. Hdels 
lant bijseglt A” 1619.’ In the Stadhuys map there is a blank 
in place of the stippling, and the legend appears at a definite 
part of the coast-line several degrees further north, so that in 
this map Edel’s Land extends from about lat. 27° S to lat. 
29° 8... The draughtsman of Tasman’s map is very inac- 
curate in his lettering, aud is evidently at fault when he 
places a legend at a part of the coast which the Stadhays 
map shows to have been unknown. On the authority 
of that map we assign the more northerly position to the 
visit of 1619. Turning now to the map of Visscher, it is 
observable that a vangue connecting line replaces the 
stippling of the one and the blank space of the other 
map, and that the legend, which runs ‘J dedels Land 
discovered Anno 1628,’ appears south of the doubtful place, 
not, as in the Stadhuys map, north of it. In the latitude 
of the Land of Edel this map agrees with Tasman’s. Had the 
D’Edel who is mentioned in Tasman’s Letter of Instructions 
been personally associated with these discoveries in 1619 and 
1628, it is probable that further reference would there have 
* The latitudes are those of the maps referred to. It is not easy to dis- 
tinguish the portion allotted to the Lendracht in Thévenot’s map from that 
allotted to D’Edel’. Houtman’s Abrolhos are here regarded as dividing the 
two discoveries. 
