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EARLY AUSTRALIAN VOYAGES
by John Pinkerton

Contents:
Introduction Pelsart Tasman Dampier

INTRODUCTION.

In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to
a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America
now stands. In the days of Francis Bacon, imagination of the English
found its way to the great Southern Continent before the Portuguese or
Dutch sailors had sight of it, and it was the home of those wise students
of God and nature to whom Bacon gave his New Atlantis. The
discoveries of America date from the close of the fifteenth century. The
discoveries of Australia date only from the beginning of the
seventeenth. The discoveries of the Dutch were little known in England
before the time of Dampier's voyage, at the close of the seventeenth
century, with which this volume ends. The name of New Holland, first
given by the Dutch to the land they discovered on the north-west coast,
then extended to the continent and was since changed to Australia.
During the eighteenth century exploration was continued by the
English. The good report of Captain Cook caused the first British
settlement to be made at Port Jackson, in 1788, not quite a hundred

years ago, and the foundations were then laid of the settlement of New
South Wales, or Sydney. It was at first a penal colony, and its Botany
Bay was a name of terror to offenders. Western Australia, or Swan
River, was first settled as a free colony in 1829, but afterwards used
also as a penal settlement; South Australia, which has Adelaide for its
capital, was first established in 1834, and colonised in 1836; Victoria,
with Melbourne for its capital, known until 1851 as the Port Philip
District, and a dependency of New South Wales, was first colonised in
1835. It received in 1851 its present name. Queensland, formerly
known as the Moreton Bay District, was established as late as 1859. A
settlement of North Australia was tried in 1838, and has since been
abandoned. On the other side of Bass's Straits, the island of Van
Diemen's Land, was named Tasmania, and established as a penal
colony in 1803.
Advance, Australia! The scattered handfuls of people have become a
nation, one with us in race, and character, and worthiness of aim. These
little volumes will, in course of time, include many aids to a knowledge
of the shaping of the nations. There will be later records of Australia
than these which tell of