PlLSTAE.RX> IN.
1629.
E d e l s - l a n d .
V a n d e L e u -
W IN S j IN l6 2 2 .
P e t e r N u y t s
i n 1627.
T ASM AN , IN
1642.
Commodore Francis Filflaert, being fent on a voyage of
difcovery with eleven ihips, was in 1629 wrecked in the
Batavia on this coaft near Edels-land, in L at. 28k He efcaped;
returned in a ikiff to Batavia; and wus obliged to leave
feveral of his crew behind. Part had confpired, and cryelly
murdered the reft ; but on his coming back to refcue frpm de-
ftruition thofe whom he had left, he feized on the mifcreants,
and gave them into the hands o f the executioner.
Van de Leuwins• Land, in Lat. 33° 40', was difcovcrcd in 1622.
From hence the fhore runs due eaft for acourfe of fppje hundred
miles. In 1627 the famous commodore Peter Nuyts failed
along the coaft, and made many attempts to land, but was always,
repulfed. Is not this a proof that the fouthern fhores o f NewHgl-r.
land pofieJs a fuperior population, and fuperior valor in the inhabitants,
to all the reft o f the known parts o f this yaft country i
The trait is to this, day called after his name-
From certain iflands called St. Francis's and St, Peter's* in
Lat. 3a9 fouth, Long. 132° eaft, no farther difcpverips. have been
made. The land is fuppofed to take a fouthern puryature, and
to contrait its breadth gradually. The courfe is marked; wfth the
dotted line, nor do we recover, Jayd till w« reach the very
fouthern extremity, which fpreads to no great breadth; one fide
ends, in Smtb^meJ} Cape, in Lat. 43" 37', the other in Sputy Cape,,
in Lat. 43° 42', and the land from each runs northward.
T h is part of New Holland was difcoyeredin 1642,. by 4pel F.qJ-,
man, who was fent for that purpofe by the ftates; he named ft
Van piemen's Land, gave names to feveral iflayds and bays,
and made fome remarks pp the cpuptry; i f he was accurate,
# they
they pto</é' a Variety in the inhabitants;' He fays they were a'
laige-rriade people, o f a color between hroWn arid yellow ; {heir
Hsfir long; arid afhnoft as thick as that of the Japànèfei arid that
like th’eth' they combed it upland fixed it at the top of their
head’s' vfith a pin. They ctfverëd their middle with a mantle;
fome \Vith à kihdrof niaft others'with-a' fort 6f tfrooïien cloth;
their îri-ÿèriiiitÿ nflgfif feath the fabricaMrig a mat; bht I dbubt
the poffibility Of the latter.
IN 1773, Tafmtm, after along interval; was followed bÿ captain
twftetiiiti, 'àYs&hsiâ iüéar fep»at©d; frdfci captain C00S, arid di-
refled his riourfe fot the purpbfe o f prirfuing the difcovery o f
thé' Dutch navigator; he fell on the Very fame country, arid
fbuiid the fame bays arid headlands obférved bÿ ‘tdfmdh. He
fa w the land eight Of nirie leagues diiiaht ; if was rather high;
broken, and'with boltf fhbreS; but beaten by a moft violent furf :
it probably having the whole weight o f the Antardfic océan
from the very pole rolling on this great headland.-
T iîe foil litre was black, rich,: bnt thin *, the ftcles' o f the
hills covered with trees, arid the view greatly bèautïfiéd by the
vaft cafârâéts, tumbling frorn immenfe heights, arid a rock with
fluted pillars, poflibly bdfaltic. Captain Furrieaux law none o f
the natives, but mét with their miferable wigwams; and fome
bags and nets iri vVhich they carried their piovifiohsyanct alfo a
ftoneto ftrike fire with, and fbme tinder.
IN January 1777, this country was vilited in pcrfon by our
g f eât navigator, who had the gpod fortune to meet With fome of
the natives, who came tP 'him with the utmoft confidence, and
* Cook’s laft voyage,, i. 112,
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