TASMAN'S VESSEL,— THE ZEEHAAN. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



DISCOVERY OF NEW HOLLAND — TASMAN ORDERED TO SURVEY THE ISLAND — 



DISCOVERY OF VAN DIEMEN's LAND OF NEW ZEALAND — MURDERERS' BAY — 



THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS — THE FEEJEES — NEW BRITAIN — AN EARTHQUAKE AT 



SEA A COFIOUS LANGUAGE CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF NEW HOLLAND RETURN 



TO BAT AVI A — RESULTS OF THE VOYAGE — DUTCH OPINIONS OF TASMAN'S 

 MERIT. 



The Council of the Dutch East India Company thought 

 proper, in 1642, to order a complete and precise survey of the 

 lands accidentally discovered during the previous fifty years by 

 vessels trading between Holland and Batavia, in Java. These 

 had touched, at intervals, at numerous points upon the conti- 

 nental island of New Holland, — Hertog at Endracht's Land in 

 1616, and De Witt, Van Nuyts, and Carpenter at other points, 

 somewhat later. It was eminently desirable that a scientific 



navigator should visit and render an account of this region, of 

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