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Adventures in Southern Seas
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Title: Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
Author: George Forbes
Release Date: September 16, 2005 [eBook #16704]
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN SEAS
A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
by
GEORGE FORBES
First published August 1920 by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 39-41 Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2 Reprinted July 1924 Printed in Great Britain by Neill & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh
INTRODUCTORY
In the year 1801 was found by the chief coxswain of the "Naturalist" (a ship commanded by Captain Hamelin on a voyage of discovery performed by order of the Emperor Napoleon I), at Shark's Bay, on the coast of West Australia, a pewter plate about six inches in diameter, bearing a roughly engraved Dutch inscription, of which the following is a translation:
"1616
"On the 25th of October arrived here the ship 'Endraght', of Amsterdam; first supercargo Gilles Miebas Van Luck; Captain Dirk Hartog, of Amsterdam. She set sail again on the 27th of the same month. Bantum was second supercargo; Janstins first pilot.
"Peter Ecoores V