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the Batavia, 59 ; people on shore savages, bhick, and quite naked, G4 ; country flat without vegeta- tion, very large ant-hills only in view, 65 ; quantities of flies, ib. ; see eight savages with clubs, ib. ; T. G. Pool's vovage, 75 ; description of the natives, their weapons,etc.,7G- 88; wreck of the Vergulde Draeck and expeditions undertaken, 67 ; seen by the "Pinck,"8o ; headdress of the natives a kind of crown, 87 ; a wild cat and two seals seen, 84 ; natives use small hammers with wooden handles, and heads of hard stone, 88 ; description of the west coast by Volkersen, 89 ; the na- tives believe in some divinity in the serpent, 95 ; Australia supposed to be divided from New Guinea by a strait terminating in the South Sea, 97 ; sea between N.and Banda, called " Milk Sea," on account of its turning white, 97 ; Dampier's account, 99 ; in his time unknown whether an island or a continent, 101 ; dry soil, yet producing trees, mostly dragon trees, 101 ; no ani- mals, or beasts, few birds, few fish, but manatree and turtle ; descrip- tion of inhabitants, 102 ; their habits, etc., 103 ; no particular worship ; weapons ; no metal ; language not known, 104 ; unsuc- cessful attempt to make them carry water ; indifferent to cloth, 106 ; Dampier took several of them, 107; W. Dampier's adventures, from a Sloan MS., 108 ; W. de Vla- mingh's voyage, 112 ; a kind of scented wood found, 113 ; de- scription of country and natives, 114 ; the inscription plate of the Eendraght, 115 ; expedition by the Nijptang, Geelvinck and Wesel, 1 20 ; a remarkable fish with a kind of arms and legs, 121 ; aromatic trees, rats as big as cats, 121 ; coast like that of Holland, easily ap- proachable ; smoke and fires seen on the main land, 122 ; nut of a certain tree causing vomiting ; two black swans, 123 ; swans, rotgansen, geese, divers, 125 ; no trees, but briars and thorns, 126 ; two nests

three fathoms in circumference,129; Dampier's voyage in 1699, 134; first signs of the land, 138 ; curious birds, scuttle-bones, sea-weeds, 139; soundings show coral groi;nd, 140; landing attempted, 141 ; trees very short, 143 ; birds, animals, raccoons, curious guanos, 144 ; fish, 145 ; turtle weighing two hundred pounds, water serpents, 148 ; sea snakes, 151 ; Bluff-point, Rose- mary Island, 154 ; fight with some natives, 158 ; account of them, 160 ; further description of the coast and its produce, 163 ; want of water, 164 ; discoveries of the Vossenbosch, D' Waijer and Nova Hollandia, 165 ; description of the islanders, 169 ; about five hundred met with, 170 ; the supposition of Australia being an island, strength- ened by the natives' rude and bar- barous character, 171 ; natives of JMaria's Land try to tow the pats- jallang, 172; the Houtman's Abrol- hos, 174

Bachian islands, king of, assisted by Quiros' force, 41

Bandeira, Viscount Sa' de, claim for the discovery of Australia by Magal- haens, xxii

Barbi� de Bocage, notice of a hydro- graphical atlas of New Holland, drawn by N. Vallard, xxxv

Barros, on Gomez de Sequeira's voy- age, xlvi

Bass's Straits, " Baye neufve," in the old maps, lviii

Batavia, book of dispatches, v. Book

Batavia, under Francis Pelsart, wrecked on the coast of New Hol- land, 59 ; a chest with money to be recovered, 50 ; remains found 178 ; account of the wreck, and in Theveuot, lxxxix ; in Harris, xc

Bay perdue, on the old maps, Ivii

Baye neufve, perhaps Bass's Straits, lviii

Beach v. Boeach

Berkenrode, ship, uncertainty about her fate, 183

Bessia river, name given to the second bay after Rooseboom's Bay, 171

Binot Paulmier de Gonneville, sup-