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The Part
Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 -
by J. E. Heeres, LL. D. Professor at the Dutch
Colonial Institute Delft - published 1899
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The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia
1606-1765.
Three versions of the one book.....the original
Dutch edition, the English Edition and an English transcript of the book
including maps. First edition of this important work, originally printed
with text in Dutch and English on opposite pages. Published by the Royal
Dutch Geographical Society to commemorate its twenty-fifth anniversary, this
publication represented a major step forward in the study of the early
discovery of Australia. Heeres was also the editor of the first publication
of Tasman"s journal.
Here in detail is a description of the
discoveries of Western and Northern Australia hundreds of years before Cook
landed on the East Coast. Amazing tales of shipwreck, mutiny, conflict with
aborigines and voyages in unknown waters.
Also includes a picture slideshow of the Duyfken
Replica built in Fremantle Western Australia.
CONTENTS
Page Images in English
Page Images in Dutch
List of books, discussed or referred to in the work
List of Maps and Figures
Introduction
DOCUMENTS:
I. Dutch notions respecting the
Southland in 1595
II. Notices of the south-coast of New
Guinea in 1602
III. Voyage of the ship Duifken
under command of Willem Jansz(oon) and Jan Lodewijkszoon Rosingeyn to New
Guinea.--Discovery of the east-coast of the present Gulf of Carpentaria
(1605-1606)
IV. Fresh expedition to New Guinea by
the ship Duifken (1607)
V. Voyage of the ships Eendracht and
Hoorn, commanded by Jacques Le Maire and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten through
the Pacific Ocean and along the north-coast of New Guinea (1616)
VI. Project for the further discovery of
the Southland--Nova Guinea (1616)
VII. Voyage of de Eendracht under
command of Dirk Hartogs(zoon). Discovery of the West-coast of Australia in
1616: Dirk Hartogs-island and -road, Land of the Eendracht or Eendrachtsland
(1616)
VIII. Voyage of the ship Zeewolf, from
the Netherlands to India, under the command of supercargo Pieter Dirkszoon and
skipper Haevik Claeszoon van Hillegom.--Further discovery of the West-coast of
Australia (1618)
IX. Voyage of the ship Mauritius from
the Netherlands to India under the command of supercargo Willem Jansz. or
Janszoon and skipper Lenaert Jacobsz(oon). Further discovery of the West-coast
of Australia.--Willems-rivier (1618)
X. Further discovery of the South-coast
of New-Guinea by the ship Het Wapen van Amsterdam? (1619?)
XI. Voyage of the ships Dordrecht and
Amsterdam under commander Frederik De Houtman, supercargo Jacob Dedel, and
skipper Reyer Janszoon van Buiksloot and Maarten Corneliszoon(?) from the
Netherlands to the East-Indies.--Further discovery of the West-coast of
Australia: Dedelsland and Houtman's Abrolhos (1619)
XII. Voyage of the ship Leeuwin from the
Netherlands to Java.--Discovery of the South-West coast of Australia.--Leeuwin's
land (1622)
XIII. The Triall. (English
discovery)--The ship Wapen van Hoorn touches at the West-coast of
Australia.--New projects for discovery made by the supreme government at
Batavia (1622)
XIV. Voyage of the ships Pera and Arnhem,
under command of Jan Carstenszoon or Carstensz., Dirk Meliszoon and Willem
Joosten van Colster or Van Coolsteerdt.--Further discovery of the South-West
coast of New Guinea. Discovery of the Gulf of Carpentaria (1623)
XV. Voyage of the ship Leiden, commanded
by skipper Klaas Hermansz(oon) from the Netherlands to Java.--Further
discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1623)
XVI. Discovery of the Tortelduif island
(rock) (1624?)
XVII. Voyage of the ship Leijden,
commanded by skipper Daniel Janssen Cock, from the Netherlands to Java.
Further discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1626)
XVIII. Discovery of the South-West coast
of Australia by the ship Het Gulden Zeepaard, commanded by Pieter Nuijts,
member of the Council of India, and by skipper Francois Thijssen or Thijszoon
(1627)
XIX. Voyage of the ships Galias, Utrecht
and Texel, commanded by Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen.--Further
discovery of the West-coast of Australia (1627)
XX. Voyage of the ship Het Wapen van
Hoorn, commanded by supercargo J. Van Roosenbergh.--Further discovery of the
West-coast of Australia (1627)
XXI. Discovery of the North-West coast
of Australia by the ship Vianen (Viane, Viana), commanded by Gerrit
Frederikszoon De Witt.--De Witt's land (1628)
XXII. Discovery of Jacob Remessens-,
Remens-, or Rommer-river, south of Willems-river (before 1629)
XXIII. Shipwreck of the ship Batavia
under commander Francois Pelsaert on Houtmans Abrolhos. Further discovery of
the West-coast of Australia (1629)
XXIV. Further surveyings of the
West-coast of Australia by the ship Amsterdam under commander Wollebrand
Geleynszoon De Jongh and skipper Pieter Dircksz, on her voyage from the
Netherlands to the East Indies (1635)
XXV. New discoveries on the North-coast
of Australia, by the ships Klein-Amsterdam and Wesel, commanded by (Gerrit
Thomaszoon Pool and) Pieter Pieterszoon (1636)
XXVI. Discovery of Tasmania (Van
Diemensland), New Zealand (Statenland), islands of the Tonga- and Fiji-groups,
etc. by the ships Heemskerk and de Zeehaen, under the command of Abel Janszoon
Tasman, Frans Jacobszoon Visscher, Yde Tjerkszoon Holman or Holleman and
Gerrit Jansz(oon) (1642-1643)
XXVII. Further discovery of the Gulf of
Carpentaria, the North and North-West coasts of Australia by the Ships Limmen,
Zeemeeuw and de Bracq, under the command of Tasman, Visscher, Dirk
Corneliszoon Haen and Jasper Janszoon Koos (1644)
XXVIII. Exploratory voyage to the
West-coast of Australia round by the south of Java, by the ship Leeuwerik,
commanded by Jan Janszoon Zeeuw (1648)
XXIX. Shipwreck of the Gulden or
Vergulden Draak on the West-coast of Australia, 1656.--Attempts to rescue the
survivors, 1656-1658.--Further surveyings of the West-coast by the ship de
Wakende Boei, commanded by Samuel Volckerts(zoon), and by the ship Emeloord,
commanded by Aucke Pieterszoon Jonck, (1658)
XXX. The ship Elburg, commanded by Jacob
Pieterszoon Peereboom, touches at the South-West coast of Australia and at
cape Leeuwin, on her voyage from the Netherlands to Batavia (1658)
XXXI. Further discovery of the
North-West-coast of Australia by the ship de Vliegende Zwaan, commanded by Jan
Van der Wall, on her voyage from Ternate to Batavia in February 1678
XXXII. Further discovery of the
West-coast of Australia by the ship Geelvink, under the skipper-commander of
the expedition, Willem De Vlamingh, the ship Nijptang, under Gerrit Collaert,
and the ship het Wezeltje, commanded by Cornelis De Vlamingh (1696-1697)
XXXIII. Further discovery of the
North-coast of Australia by the ships Vossenbosch, commanded by Maarten Van
Delft, de Waijer under Andries Rooseboom, of Hamburg, and Nieuw-Holland or
Nova-Hollandia, commanded by Pieter Hendrikszoon, of Hamburg (1705)
XXXIV. Exploratory voyage by order of
the West-India Company "to the unknown part of the world, situated in the
South Sea to westward of America", by the ships Arend and the African Galley,
commanded by Mr. Jacob Roggeveen, Jan Koster, Cornelis Bouman and Roelof
Roosendaal (1721-1722)
XXXV. The ship Zeewijk, commanded by Jan
Steijns, lost on the Tortelduif rock (1727)
XXXVI. Exploratory voyage of the ships
Rijder and Buis, commanded by lieutenant Jan Etienne Gonzal and first mate
Lavienne Lodewijk Van Asschens, to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1756)
INDICES. (Persons, Ships, Localities)
LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES.
No. 1 Gedeelte der (Part of the)
Orbis terrae compendiosa describtio
No. 2 Gedeelte der (Part of the)
Exacta & accurata delineatio cum orarum maritimarum tum etjam locorum
terrestrium, quae in regjonibus China...una cum omnium vicinarum insularum
descriptjone ut sunt Sumatra, Java utraque
No. 3 Zuidoostelijk gedeelte der Kaart
(South-eastern part of the Map) Indiae Orientalis Nova description
No. 4 Caert van (Chart of) 't Land van
d'Eendracht Ao 1627 door HESSEL GERRITSZ
No. 5 Uitslaande Kaart van het Zuidland
door HESSEL GERRITSZ (Folding chart of the Southland).
No. 6 Kaart van het Zuidland van (Alap
of the Southland by) JOANNES KEPPLER en PHILIPPUS ECKEBRECHT, 1630
No. 7 Kaart van den opperstuurman AREND
MARTENSZ. DE LEEUW, der Zuidwestkust van Nieuw Guinea en der Oostkust van de
Golf van Carpentaria (Chart, made by the upper steersman Arend Martensz. De
Leeuw, of the Southwest coast of New-Guinea and the East-coast of the Gulf of
Carpentaria)
No. 8 Kaart van (Chart of)
Eendrachtsland, 1658
No. 9 Kaart van (Chart of)
Eendrachtsland, 1658
No. 10 Kaart van (Chart of)
Eendrachtsland, 1658
No. 11 Kaart van de Noordzijde van 't
Zuidland (Chart of the North side of the Southland), 1678
No. 12 Opschrift op den schotel, door
Willem De Vlamingh op het Zuidland achtergelaten (Inscription on the dish,
left by Willem De Vlamingh at the Southland), 1697.
No. 13 Kaart van het Zuidland, bezeild
door Willem De Vlamingh, in 1696-1697 door ISAAC DE GRAAFF (Chart of the
South-land, made and surveyed by Willem De Vlamingh in 1696-1697)
No. 14 Uitslaande kaart van den
Maleischen Archipel, de Noord- en West-kusten van Australië door ISAAC DE
GRAAFF (Folding chart of the Malay Archipelago, the North- and West-coast of
Australia) 1690-1714
No. 15 Kaart van (Chart of) Hollandia
Nova, nader ontdekt anno 1705 door (more exactly discovered by) de Vossenbosch,
de Waijer en de Nova Hollandia
No. 16-17 Kaarten betreffende de
schipbreuk der Zeewijk (Charts, concerning the shipwreck of the Zeewijk) 1727.
No. 18 Typus orbis terrarum uit GERARDI
MERCATORIS Atlas...De Novo...emendatus...studio JUDOCI HONDIJ, 1632.
No. 19 Wereldkaartje uit het Journaal
van de Nassausche Vloot (Little map of the world from the Journal of the
Nassau fleet), 1626
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