CONTENTS. 



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Introduction 1 



I. Youth and Early Voyages, 1603-1638 6 



II. Voyages in Japan Seas, &c, 1639-1642 11 



III. The Great Discovery Voyages to the South Land, 1642 and 1644 : 



1. The Unknown South Land 17 



2. The Planning of the Great Discovery Voyage 25 



3. The Voyage of 1642 SI 



4. The Voyaged 1644 35 



I V. Tasman's Later Years, 1644-1669 38 



Bibliographical Notes : 



Maps of the Voyages 44 



Manuscripts of the Journal 45 



Printed Works 46 



Appendix : The Discovery of Tasmania (from Tasman's Journal) 49 



MAPS. 



Mappk-monde, Circa 1630 19 



(From the Atlas of Janssonius ; Amsterdam, circa 1630.) Shows the Terra 

 Australia Nondnm Cognita, as supposed before Tasman's discoveries. [See 

 page 19 of the text.] The figures in the border of the map represent : 

 (1) The Seven Planets. (2) The Seven Wonders of the World. (3) The 

 Pour Elements. (4) The Pour Seasons. 



Map ov Tasman's Voyages, 1642 and 1644 31 



(Reduced from the fac simile in Mr. Jacob Swarfs edition of the Journal 

 of 1642 ; Amsterdam, I860.) The original map— which is elaborately 

 coloured— is probably the work of the Pilot-Major Prans Visscher. [See 

 Bibliographical Notes ; Manuscript Maps, No. 1, page 44.] 



Map of Anthony van Diemenslandt 49 



(Prom Messrs, P. Muller and Co.'s reproduction of the map in Tasman's 

 Journal.) The original map — which is carefully coloured — is contained in 

 the Manuscript Journal preserved in the State Archives at The Hague, and 

 described in the Bibliographical Notes as R.A. 2. [Sec pago 45.] 



