The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea
by George Collingridge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Collingridge, George, 1847-1931
- Title
- The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts.
- Credits
- Produced by Col Choat
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DU: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Oceania (South Seas)
- Subject
- Oceania -- Discovery and exploration -- Portuguese
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 17022
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17022
- Release Date
- November 7, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.By George Collingridge De Tourcey, M.C.R.G.S., of Australasia; — Hon. Corr. M.R.G.S., Melbourne, Victoria; Hon. Corr. M.N.G.S., Neuchatel, Switzerland; Hon. Corr. M. of the Portuguese G.S.; Hon. Corr. M. of the Spanish G.S.; Founder (with his brother, Arthur Collingridge) and First Vice-President of the Royal Art Society of N.S.W., Australia; Author of "The Discovery of Australia," etc., etc. — First published 1906 — "Olba a Sunda tao larga que huma banda Esconde para o Sul difficultuoso." CAMOËNS.--Os Lusiadas. — CONTENTS. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — LIST OF MAPS IN TEXT. — LIST OF COLOURED MAPS--ILLUSTRATED. — PREFACE TO GEORGE COLLINGRIDGE'S DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA, PUBLISHED IN 1895. — PUBLISHERS' NOTE. — INTRODUCTION.
- 3.THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA. — CHAPTER I. — IN QUEST OF THE SPICE ISLANDS. — CHAPTER II. — VOYAGES TO THE SPICE ISLANDS AND DISCOVERY OF PAPUA. — CHAPTER III. — THE SPICE ISLANDS, IN RIBERO'S MAP. — CHAPTER IV. — VILLALOBOS' EXPEDITION AND FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN PAPUA. — CHAPTER V. — THE FIRST MAP OF NEW GUINEA. — CHAPTER VI. — JAVE-LA-GRANDE. THE FIRST MAP OF AUSTRALIA. — CHAPTER VII. — PIERRE DESCELIERS' MAP. — CHAPTER VIII. — DESLIENS' MAP. — CHAPTER IX. — MENDANA AND SARMIENTO DISCOVER THE SOLOMONS. — CHAPTER X. — MENDANA IN SEARCH OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. — CHAPTER XI. — QUEIROZ'S VOYAGE. — CHAPTER XII. — Chronological Table of Important Events.
- 4.THE END
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