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INTRODUCTION.
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I.
OCCASION AND OBJECT OF THE PRESENT WORK.
In writing my biography of Tasman, forming part of Messrs. Frederik
Muller and Co.'s edition of the Journal of Tasman's celebrated voyage
of discovery of 1642-1643, I was time and again struck by the fact that
the part borne by the Netherlanders in the discovery of the continent of
Australia is very insufficiently known to the Dutch themselves, and
altogether misunderstood or even ignored abroad. Not only those who
with hypercritical eyes scrutinise, and with more or less scepticism as
to its value, analyse whatever evidence on this point is submitted to
them, but those others also who feel a profound and sympathetic
interest in the historical study of the remarkable voyages which the

Netherlanders undertook to the South-land, are almost invariably quite
insufficiently informed concerning them. This fact is constantly
brought home to the student who consults the more recent works
published on the subject, and who fondly hopes to get light from such
authors as CALVERT, COLLINGRIDGE, NORDENSKIOLD,
RAINAUD and others. Such at least has time after time been my own
case. Is it wonderful, therefore, that, while I was engaged in writing
Tasman's life, the idea occurred to me of republishing the documents
relating to this subject, preserved in the State Archives at the
Hague--the repository of the archives of the famous General Dutch
Chartered East-India Company extending over two centuries
(1602-1800)--and in various other places? I was naturally led to lay
before Messrs. Frederik Muller and Co. the question,