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Farther, in lat. 4° S., the Kaiserin Augusta Eiver debouches, 
the only stream of value for navigation in tjiis territory. 
From Humboldt Bay—the German-Dutch limit'—onwards 
to the entrance of the Great Geelvink Bay, the same high 
coast prevails, except at the most northern point, where 
it is broken by the vast delta of the Amberno River. 
This stream has not yet been explored, but it is known 
to be of considerable size. Each of the three divisions 
of Hew Guinea—Dutch, British, and German—is thus 
provided with a single large river—the Amberno, Fly, 
and Kaiserin Augusta respectively. 
3. History. 
The existence of Hew Guinea was probably known to 
Albuquerque after his conquest of Malacca in 1511, and 
when the Victoria , the only remaining ship of Magellan’s 
squadron, completed the first circumnavigation of the 
globe and returned to Seville in 1522, she brought skins 
of the bird-of-paradise, obtained from the natives of 
Tidor in the Moluccas, which must have been procured 
from the mainland or some of the islands of Papua. Yet 
this region does not appear to have been visited, or even 
sighted, by Europeans for some years later, although it is 
frequently and erroneously mentioned as having been 
seen by d’Abreu in his Moluccan voyage in 1511. Don 
Jorge de Meneses, the Portuguese commander, was the 
first to discover it, accidentally overrunning his distance 
in voyaging from Malacca to Ternate in 1526. He 
appears, as far as can be gathered from scant details, to 
have reached Waigiu Island, and to have stayed there some 
time. In 1528, and again in 1529, Alvaro Saavedra 
undoubtedly visited the north coast, and sailed along it 
for a great distance on the occasion of his second visit, 
