Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BINDER
- INTRODUCTION
- A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN
- RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES
- EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA
- THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART
- VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND
- ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “DE VERGULDE DRAECK”
- DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH LAND
- EXTRACT TRANSLATED FROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN'S
- ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
- EXTRACT FROM SLOAN MS., 3236
- SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH
- EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH LAND
- ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
- A WRITTEN DETAIL OF THE DISCOVERIES AND NOTICEABLE OCCURRENCES
- THE HOUTMAN'S ABROLHOS
- INDEX
- Outline Chart of TERRA AUSTRALIS OF AUSTRALIA
- Plate section
ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INSTRUCTIONS TO THE BINDER
- INTRODUCTION
- A MEMORIAL ADDRESSED TO HIS CATHOLIC MAJESTY PHILIP THE THIRD, KING OF SPAIN
- RELATION OF LUIS VAEZ DE TORRES
- EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA
- THE VOYAGE AND SHIPWRECK OF CAPTAIN FRANCIS PELSART
- VOYAGE OF GERRIT THOMASZ POOL TO THE SOUTH LAND
- ACCOUNT OF THE WRECK OF THE SHIP “DE VERGULDE DRAECK”
- DESCRIPTION OF THE WEST COAST OF THE SOUTH LAND
- EXTRACT TRANSLATED FROM BURGOMASTER WITSEN'S
- ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
- EXTRACT FROM SLOAN MS., 3236
- SOME PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE VOYAGE OF WILLEM DE VLAMINGH
- EXTRACT FROM THE JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE MADE TO THE UNEXPLORED SOUTH LAND
- ACCOUNT OF THE OBSERVATIONS OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER
- A WRITTEN DETAIL OF THE DISCOVERIES AND NOTICEABLE OCCURRENCES
- THE HOUTMAN'S ABROLHOS
- INDEX
- Outline Chart of TERRA AUSTRALIS OF AUSTRALIA
- Plate section
Summary
Being now clear of all the islands, we stood off south, intending to touch at New Holland, a part of Terra Australis Incognita, to see what that country would afford us. Indeed, as the winds were, we could not now keep our intended course (which was first westerly and then northerly) without going to New Holland, unless we had gone back again among the islands; but this was not a good time of the year to be among any islands to the south of the equator, unless in a good harbour.
The 31st day we were in latitude 13° 26′, still standing to the southward, the wind bearing commonly very hard at west, and we keeping upon it under two courses, and our myen, and sometimes a main-top-sail rift. About ten a clock at night we tackt and stood to the northward, for fear of running on a shoal, which is laid down in our drafts in latitude 13° 50′ or thereabouts: it bearing south by west from the east end of Timor: and so the island bore from us by our judgments and reckoning. At three a clock we tackt again, and stood S. by W. and S.S.W.
In the morning, as soon as it was day, we saw the shoal right ahead: it lies in 13° 50′ by all our reckonings. It is a small spit of land, just appearing above the water's edge, with several rocks about it, 8 or 10 feet above high water.
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- Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called AustraliaA 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, pp. 99 - 107Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1859