A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND ETC
by William Dampier
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About this eBook
- Author
- Dampier, William, 1651-1715
- Title
- A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
- Credits
- Produced by Sue Asscher. HTML by Col Choat. Produced from page images provided by canadiana.org ( www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=34674)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
- Subject
- Shark Bay (W.A.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 15675
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15675
- Release Date
- April 21, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND ETC. — IN THE YEAR 1699. — Wherein are described, The Canary Islands, the Isles of Mayo and St. Jago. The Bay of All-Saints, with the forts and town of Bahia in Brazil. Cape Salvador. The winds on the Brazilian coast. Abrolho Shoals. A table of all the variations observed in this voyage. Occurrences near the Cape of Good Hope. The course to New Holland. Shark's Bay. The isles and coast, etc. of New Holland. — Their inhabitants, manners, customs, trade, etc. Their harbours, soil, beasts, birds, fish, etc. Trees, plants, fruits, etc. — Illustrated with several maps and draughts: also divers birds, fishes and plants not found in this part of the world, curiously engraven on copper plates.
- 3.BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER. — THE THIRD EDITION. — LONDON, — Printed for James and John Knapton at the Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard. — 1729.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 6.A VOYAGE TO NEW HOLLAND, ETC. IN THE YEAR 1699.
- 7.DEDICATION.
- 8.THE PREFACE.
- 9.A VOYAGE TO TERRA AUSTRALIS. — CHAPTER 1. — DEPARTURE AND PROVISIONING EN ROUTE. — CHAPTER 2. — SOUTH OF THE LINE TO BRAZIL. — CHAPTER 3. — TWO OCEANS AND NEW HOLLAND.
- 10.AN ACCOUNT OF SEVERAL PLANTS COLLECTED IN BRAZIL, NEW HOLLAND, TIMOR, AND NEW GUINEA, REFERRING TO THE FIGURES ENGRAVEN ON THE COPPER PLATES. — AN ACCOUNT OF SOME FISHES THAT ARE FIGURED IN PLATES 2 AND 3 FISHES. — INDEX. — THE END
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