Early Australian Voyages: Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier
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Chapters (27)
- EARLY AUSTRALIAN VOYAGES BY JOHN PINKERTON
- INTRODUCTION.
- VOYAGE OF FRANCIS PELSART TO AUSTRALASIA. 1628-29.
- REMARKS.
- THE VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN ABEL JANSEN TASMAN FOR THE DISCOVERY OF SOUTHERN COUNTRIES. 1642-43.
- CHAPTER I: THE OCCASION AND DESIGN OF THIS VOYAGE.
- CHAPTER II: CAPTAIN TASMAN SAILS FROM BATAVIA, AUGUST 14, 1642.
- CHAPTER III: REMARKS ON THE VARIATION OF THE NEEDLE.
- CHAPTER IV: HE DISCOVERS A NEW COUNTRY TO WHICH HE GIVES THE NAME OF VAN DIEMEN’S LAND.
- CHAPTER V: SAILS FROM THENCE FOR NEW ZEALAND.
- CHAPTER VI: VISITS THE ISLAND OF THE THREE KINGS, AND GOES IN SEARCH OF OTHER ISLANDS DISCOVERED BY SCHOVTEN.
- CHAPTER VII: REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES IN THE VOYAGE.
- CHAPTER VIII: OBSERVATIONS ON, AND EXPLANATION OF, THE VARIATION OF THE COMPASS.
- CHAPTER IX: DISCOVERS A NEW ISLAND, WHICH HE CALLS PYLSTAART ISLAND.
- CHAPTER X: AND TWO ISLANDS, TO WHICH HE GIVES THE NAME OF AMSTERDAM AND ROTTERDAM
- CHAPTER XI: AND AN ARCHIPELAGO OF TWENTY SMALL ISLANDS.
- CHAPTER XII: OCCURRENCES IN THE VOYAGE.
- CHAPTER XIII: HE ARRIVES AT THE ARCHIPELAGO OF ANTHONG JAVA.
- CHAPTER XIV: HIS ARRIVAL ON THE COAST OF NEW GUINEA.
- CHAPTER XV: CONTINUES HIS VOYAGE ALONG THAT COAST.
- CHAPTER XVI: ARRIVES IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BURNING ISLAND, AND SURVEYS THE WHOLE COAST OF NEW GUINEA.
- CHAPTER XVII: COMES TO THE ISLANDS OF JAMA AND MOA.
- CHAPTER XVIII: PROSECUTES HIS VOYAGE TO CERAM.
- CHAPTER XIX: ARRIVES SAFELY AT BATAVIA, JUNE 15, 1643.
- CHAPTER XX: CONSEQUENCES OF CAPTAIN TASMAN’S DISCOVERIES.
- CHAPTER XXI: REMARKS UPON THE VOYAGE.
- AN ACCOUNT OF NEW HOLLAND AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS. 1699-1700.
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