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Sandy Bay, 162

San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern continent, 23; discovered, 37

Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de JMeyra, 18

Santa jMaria, discovered and named by Torres, 37

Santa Polouia, island, 32

Santarem, Yicomte de, " Essai sur • I'histoire de la Cosmographie ... du Moyen Age," xiii

San Valerio, island, 32

Sardam, frigate, 71

Schildpats island, 172

Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, 75 ; killed by the Southlauders, 76

Sea snakes seen by Dampier, 151

Sea, tui'ning white, twice a-year, be- tween Banda and the South Land, 97

Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, xlvi

Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, 95

Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, lx

Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, 1; extract, 2

Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186

Solomon islands, discovered by Men- dana, lxx

Sondur island, xv

South Laud, v. Australia

Southern continent, existence of, be- lieved anterior to Portuguese dis- coveries, xiii

Southern India, of Gonneville, being Madagascar, xxi

Spain, claim to the discovery of Aus- tralia, xxi

Spult, island, discovery, 45

St. Brandan, island, ii

St. Paul, island, Vlamingh's expedi- tion was to land there, 113

Sta. Maria, v. Santa Maria

Stabroeck, wreck, 182

Steyns, Jan, communication about the wreck of the Zeewijck, 179, 180 ; indicted before the court, 181

Strabo, speaks of a southern conti- nent, xiii

Struyck, Nicholas, tract, containing an account of Dampier's voyage, 114

Swans, black, cviii, 114

Taomaco, island, 36

Tasman, Abel Janszen, discovers Tas- mania, explores Torres Straits, xciii ; his lost papers quoted by Witsen, xciv; outlines of the coasts visited by him, represented on the floor of the Stadhuis at Amster- dam, xcv; maps, xcvi; notes of his voyage by Witsen, xcviii; instruc- tions for the expedition to New Guinea, 43 ; map found wrong by Dampier, 152

Temple, Sir William, on the secrecy of the Dutch about their discove- ries, vi

Ternate, on the Moluccas, fortified, xxxvii

Testu, Guillaume le, v. Le Testu

Themara, Francisco, Libro de las cos- tumbres, lxiv

Theopompus, mentions an island be- yond the then known world, ii

Thevet, " Cosmographie Universelle," 1575, Ixvi

Tierra baiza, Ixviii

Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Magel- haens, xxvi ; mistaken for New Guinea, ib.

Tin plate, with the names of Dirk Hartog and others of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh's expedition, 130

Toppors-hoetien, island, 68

Tomai, the chief of Taomaco, 36

Tobi island, v. Lord North's island

Torres, Luis Vaez de, commander of the Almirante, Ixxiii ; discoveries, 20 ; relation of the discoveries of Quiros, 31

Torres' Straits, name, lxxii ; passed by Tasman, xcii

Trial Rocks, opinions on, 186

Tristan d'Acunha, drawing of ; Vla- mingh's expedition was to land there, 113, 119

Turtledove, shoal, 177

Vaderland, Getrouw, s', extract from

the skipper's journal, 187 Valerio, San, v. San Valerio Vallard, Nicholas, MS. Atlas with his

name, xxxv