Volume 1

Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and Western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 / By Captain Phillip P. King. With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history.

  • King, Philip Parker, 1793-1856.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and Western coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 / By Captain Phillip P. King. With an appendix, containing various subjects relating to hydrography and natural history. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of its coasts: during the seventeenth cen- tury several voyages were made by differ- ent Dutch navigators, from whom we have the first-recorded description of its shores ; but from the jealous disposition of their East India Company, under whose orders these voyages were performed, the ac- counts of them were so concealed, and consequently lost or destroyed, that few particulars of a detailed nature have been handed down *. * In the voyages of Gautier Schouten, published at Amsterdam in 1708, duod. vol. i. p. 41, et seq., there is the following curious account of the wreck of a ship on the coast of New Holland :— *¢ Tl me semble que je ne dois pas omettre ici une his- toire, de la certitude de laquelle on n’eut pas lieu de douter. Des-que la nouvelle fut venué a Batavia, [ Anno 1659,] que le vaisseau le Dragon, qui venoit de Hol- lande aux Indes, avoit fait naufrage sur les cétes d'une Terre Australe inconnué, on y envoia la fifite la Bowée a la Veille, pour ramener ceux des gens de l’équipage qui auroient pu se sauver, et les éfets qui auroient été con- servez. ** La fliite étant conduite par ceux qui étoient échapez