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

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 / by George Collingridge de Tourcey

Creator: Collingridge, George, 1847-1931

Call Number: FERG/5044

Created/Published: Sydney : William Brooks, 1906

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First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea.	1
First Discovery of AUSTRALIA and NEW GUINEA.	11
Contents.	13
List of Illustrations.	15
List of Maps in Text.	17
List of Coloured Maps—Illustrated.	19
Preface to George Collingridge's Discovery of Australia, published in 1895.	21
Publishers' Note.	23
Introduction.	25
FIRST DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW GUINEA.	27
CHAPTER II. VOYAGES TO THE SPICE ISLANDS AND DISCOVERY OF PAPUA.	35
CHAPTER III. THE SPICE ISLANDS, IN RIBERO’S MAP.	42
CHAPTER IV. VILLALOBOS’ EXPEDITION AND FURTHER DISCOVERIES IN PAPUA.	50
CHAPTER V. THE FIRST MAP OF NEW GUINEA.	53
CHAPTER VI. JAVE-LA-GRANDE. THE FIRST MAP OF AUSTRALIA.	59
CHAPTER VII. PIERRE DESCELIERS’ MAP.	78
CHAPTER VIII. DESLIENS’ MAP.	84
CHAPTER IX. MENDANA AND SARMIENTO DISCOVER THE SOLOMONS.	89
CHAPTER X. MENDANA IN SEARCH OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS.	95
CHAPTER XI. QUEIROZ’S VOYAGE.	100
CHAPTER XII. TORRES’ DISCOVERIES.	143
Chronological Table of Important Events.	161
[Chapter heading not available]	163

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