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Title Page |
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BOOK 1. - DISCOVERY BY SEA |
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Introduction, Acknowledgment, Works of
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Principal Dates |
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Terra Australis Incognita |
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Torres and Quiros |
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Tasman's Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New
Zealand |
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Governor-General Van Diemen's Report |
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Tasman's Instructions |
| VI. |
Pelsart and the Wreck of the
Batavia |
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Dutch Sailing Directions |
| VIII. |
Dutch Account of New Holland and Van Diemen's
Land |
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Dampier's Voyage in the Cygnet |
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Dampier's Voyage in the Roebuck |
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Cook in New Zealand |
| XII. |
Cook's Discovery of Eastern Australia |
| XIII. |
Bligh's Account of the Bounty Mutiny
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Lapérouse in the Pacific |
| XV. |
The Discovery of Bass Strait |
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Flinders' Discovery of Southern Australia
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* List of Illustrations * |
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(The maps and prints which illustrate this
book have been chosen by Miss Kathleen Usher.) |
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Portraits |
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Captain
James Cook F.R.S. |
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Ferdinand Majellan |
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Anthony van Diemen |
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Sir Francis Drake |
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George Bass |
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Captain Matthew Flinders R.N. |
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Maps |
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Tasman's Chart of 1644 |
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Dampier's Map of New Holland, 1699 |
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The World According to Ptolemy |
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Part of Desceliers' Map, 1550 |
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Routes of Mendaña (1595), Quiros (1606), and Torres
(1606) |
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Orbis Terrarum Ortelius, 1589 |
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Thevenot's Map of New Holland, Paris
1663 |
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Chart of Part of the South Sea, Signed by James Cook
[1771] |
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A Map of the World, London 1598 |
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BOOK 2. - DISCOVERY BY LAND |
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Introduction, Works of Reference |
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List of Principal Dates |
| I. |
Blaxland's Story of the Crossing of the Blue
Mountains |
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Evans's Journal of his Journey to the Bathurst Plains |
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Governor Macquarie's Report on the Country Beyond the Mountains |
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Evans's Discovery of the Lachlan |
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Oxley's
Exploration of the Lachlan |
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Oxley's Exploration of the Macquarie |
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Evans's Discovery of the Castlereagh |
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Allan Cunningham's Explorations |
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Hume and Hovell's Journey to Port Phillip |
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Lockyer's Exploration of the Brisbane River |
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Sturt's Discovery of the Darling
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Sturt's Discovery of the Murray |
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Mitchell's Exploration of Australia Felix |
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Sturt's Journey into Central Australia |
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Eyre's Journey from Fowler's Bay to Albany |
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The Burke and Wills Expedition |
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Stuart's Journey to the Centre of Australia |
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Stuart's Journey Across the Continent |
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* List of Illustrations * |
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(The maps and prints which illustrate this
book have been chosen by Miss Kathleen Usher.) |
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Portraits |
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Lachlan Macquarie |
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John Oxley |
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Charles Sturt, Aged 73 |
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Edward John Eyre |
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Robert O'Hara Burke |
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William John Wills |
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Maps |
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Evan's Route, Nov.-Dec., 1813, and Jan., 1814 |
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Oxley's Routes 1817-18 |
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Cunningham's Route, April-May-June, 1823 |
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Sturt's Discoveries, 1828-9 and 1829-30 |
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Sturt's Diagram of the Sea Mouth of the Murray |
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The River Darling, 1838 |
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Mouth of the Glenelg |
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Sturt's Expedition into Central Australia, 1844-5-6 |
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Burke and Wills's Route to the Gulf of Carpentaria, 1861 |
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Stuart's Route Across Australia, 1862 |
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