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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.
Author: George Collingridge
Release Date: November 7, 2005 [EBook #17022]
Language: English
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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, 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.
I. In Quest of the Spice Islands II. Voyages to the Spice Islands and
Discovery of Papua III. The Spice Islands in Ribero's Map IV.
Villalobos' Expedition and Further Discoveries in Papua V. The First
Map of New Guinea VI. Jave-la-Grande, The First Map of Australia
VII. Pierre Desceliers' Map VIII. Desliens' Map IX. Mendana and
Sarmiento Discover the Solomons X. Mendana in Search of the
Solomon Islands. An Early Map of the Solomons XI. Queiroz's Voyage.
A Spanish Map of the Bay of St. Philip and St. James, in Espiritu-Santo
Island (New Hebrides) XII. Torres' Discoveries

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. Prince Henry the Navigator 2. Statue of Prince Henry 3. Portuguese
Fleet 4. Magellan 5. The Victoria 6. The Trinidad in a Squall 7. Flying
Fish (From an Old Map) 8. Sebastian del Cano 9. Scene in the Spice
Islands 10. Tidor Volcano, seen from Ternate 11. The Cassowary 12.
Spanish Ships 13. Nutmegs and Cloves, from an Old Chart 14. Banda
Volcano 15. Diego do Couto's Pig 16. Malay Press 17. Spanish Ships
18. Guinea Fowl 19. Scene in New Guinea 20. Spanish Caravels 21.
The Great Albuquerque 22. Bamboos 23. Guanaco 24. Marco Polo 25.
Ant Hills 26. Mendana's Fleet 27. Crescent-shaped canoes 28. Scene in
the Solomon Islands 29. Tinacula Volcano, from Santa Cruz 30.
Queiroz's Fleet 31. An Atoll Reef 32. Type of Island Woman 33. War
Drums 34. Scene in the Solomon Islands

LIST OF MAPS IN TEXT.
1. Portuguese Hemisphere 2. Spanish Hemisphere 3. Timor, from an
Old Chart 4. Australia and Jave-la-Grande compared 5. Santa Ysabel
Island 6. Guadalcanal Island 7. Santa Cruz Island 8. The Earliest Map
of the Solomon Islands 9. Queiroz's Track 10. Tierra Australia del
Espiritu Santo 11. New Hebrides 12. The Big Bay of Santo 13. New
Holland 14. Torres' Track

LIST OF COLOURED MAPS--ILLUSTRATED.
1. The Earliest Drawing of a Wallaby 2. The Spice Islands, from
Ribero's Official Map of the World 3. Nova Guinea--The First Map of
New Guinea 4. Jave-la-Grande--The First Map of Australia 5. Don
Diego de Prado's Map of the Bay of St Philip and St James in Espiritu
Santo 6. Don Diego de Prado's Map of the Islands at the South-east end
of New Guinea 7. Pierre Desceliers' Map of Australia 8. Desliens' Map
of Australia 9. Moresby's Map of the Islands at the South-east end of
New Guinea 10. The Great Bay of St Lawrence 11. Bay of St Peter of
Arlanza

PREFACE TO GEORGE COLLINGRIDGE'S DISCOVERY OF
AUSTRALIA, PUBLISHED IN 1895.
Of the many books which have been published on subjects relating to
Australia and Australian History, I am not aware of any, since my late
friend, Mr. R. H. Major's introduction to his valuable work, "Early
Voyages to Terra Australis," which has attempted a systematic
investigation into the earliest discoveries of the great Southern
Island-Continent, and the first faint indications of knowledge that such
a land existed. Mr. Major's work was published in 1859, at a time when
the materials for such an enquiry were much smaller than at present.
The means of reproducing and distributing copies of the many ancient
maps which are scattered among the various libraries of Europe were
then very imperfect, and the science of Comparative Cartography, of
which the importance is