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Credit: Sales catalogue 491: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PELSAERT——continued. refused to join them on the larger island, and all the men on the smaller island. Pelsaert was able to capture them and hung them all with the exception of two, whom he marooned on the mainland of Australia, Pelsaert’s dismal account of Australia was sufficient to deter the Dutch from trying to settle on that ‘‘ barren’’ continent. In his narrative he tells how he saw ‘‘a species of cat, which are very strange creatures . . . the fore-paws are very short . . . and its hind legs are upwards of half an ell,, and it walks on these alone.’’ Thus the kangaroo is first introduced to the European reader. 1648 A.D. [30a] DITTO. Another Edition. With a woodcut of two ships on the title, and folding plate containing 6 engravings of the loss of the ‘“ Batavia.” Small 4to. 78 pp. Half calf. Amsterdam, Joost Hartgerts, 1648. £10 10s 1648 A.D. [31] NOORDT (Oliwier van). Journal van de wonder- lijcke Vooyagie door de Straet Magalanes, . . . in’t Jaer 1598. Etc. Shipping vignette on title and 7 illustrations. 4to. New half red levant morocco, gilt, g. e. Amsterdam, G. J]. Saeghman, circa 1648. £38 8s Olivier van Noordt was appointed by a Dutch merchant company to conduct a voyage round the world and to prey on Spanish and Portuguese shipping. He met with a series of troubles, all his vessels, save one, were lost or deserted him, the crews mutinied and gave him endless trouble. He, however, sailed through the Straits of Magellan, up the coast of South America, and across the Pacific to the Mariana Islands and back to Holland round the Cape of Good Hope, but did not make any new geographical discoveries.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31640485_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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