Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages: Read Before the Royal Society of Tasmania, 25th November, 1895

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Government Printer, South Africa, 1896 - 56 pages
 

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Page 43 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 41 - ... that there is nothing more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the hour of the same, he has therefore resolved to make a solemn testament.
Page 44 - S wart's edition of the complete journal published in 1860. 2. In the British Museum. S'loane MSS. 5222, Art. 12. A large sketch map, roughly executed, showing both voyages. In the centre of Australia is written " This large Land of New Guinea was first discovered to joyne to ye South Land by ye Yot Lemmen as by this Chart Ffrancois Jacobus Vis. Pilot Maior Anno 1643.
Page 31 - Voyatje of 1642. The next day (14th August) the ships sailed from Batavia, and on this day Tasman's Journal begins as follows : — " Journal or description by me, Abel Jansz Tasman, of a voyage made from the Town of Batavia, in the East Indies, for the discovery of the Unknown Southland, in the year Anno 1642, the 14th August. May it please Almighty God to grant his blessing thereto ! Amen.
Page 33 - Rounding South West Cape they got the wind from the north, and sailed along! the south coast. Tasman named the outlying islands and some peaks on the broken coast, which he mistook for islands, after members of the Council of India — Wit, Maatsuyker, Sweers, and Boreel. Passing between Pedra...
Page 5 - Nations," presented to King James in the year 1603, we find a striking picture of the commerce of the Netherlands as compared with that of England. Raleigh attributes the sudden and astonishing rise of the Netherlanders, among other causes, to the " embargoing and confiscating of their ships in Spain, which constrained them, and gave them courage to trade by force into the East and West Indies, and in Africa, where they employ 180 ships and 8700 mariners." (This, it should be noted, was only seven...
Page 51 - Noon, by reckoning in latitude 44° 12', and longitude 165° 2' ; and course held E. by S., and sailed 11 (44) miles. The wind from the NW, with gentle breeze. In the evening carne under the shore. There are under the shore some small islands, one of which looks like a lion. This lies about 3 (12) miles out to sea from the mainland. Evening got the wind E. At night lay to under shortened sail. 29th November. — Morning, were still near the rock which looks like a lion's head.* Had the wind westerly,...
Page 34 - Peninsula), he took his departure from " a high round mountain" — probably St. Patrick's Head, or perhaps St. Paul's Dome.* Steering due east from the coast of Antony Van Diemen's Land, after nine days he sighted land again (13th December). This was the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, to the south of Cook's Strait. In an interesting paper by Dr. TM Hocken, of Dunedin, on Tasman's discoveries in New Zealand, it is stated that " the great high land " that Tasman first saw is situated...
Page 31 - Ide Tjercxszoon, was to succeed to the command. The Instructions conclude : — " We commend you to the blessing of the Almighty, whom we pray to endue you with manly courage for the accomplishment of the proposed discoveries, and to bring you back in safety, to the increase of His glory, the reputation of the Fatherland, the service of the Company, and your own immortal honour.
Page 18 - Magellan's track across the South Sea, made the Moluccas, and returned to England laden with booty. In the latter part of the 16th and early part of the 17th centuries several Dutch navigators accomplished similar circumnavigations.

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