Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia

ON THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA BY THE PORTUGUESE IN 1601.

Reading edition

R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.

BEING

A SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOLUME OF “EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS.”

1001Extract from a letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., “On the Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601, five years before the earliest discovery hitherto recorded; communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, by Richard Henry Major, Esq., F.S.A.,” now distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement to the Volume of “Early Voyages to Terra Australis,” by the same author.

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From the Archæologia. Vol. xxxviii.

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Illustration from Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from Early Manuscript Maps, Illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of That Vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook.