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XXX.—On the Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601, Five Years before the earliest hitherto known Discovery: with Arguments in favour of a previous Discovery by the same Nation early in the Sixteenth Century. By Richard H. Major, Esq., F.S.A., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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Abstract

If any doubt could be entertained of the importance of collecting and embodying in our literature the scattered relics of the early history of geographical discovery, the doubt might find its answer in the eager curiosity with which the more cultivated Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of America look back to every minute particular respecting the early history of their adopted country.

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Archaeologia , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , 1861 , pp. 439 - 459
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1861

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page 445 note a This unanswerable reason was supplied to me by the late distinguished Dr. Brown, who not only, as Humboldt has described him, was “Botanicorum facile princeps,” but himself acquainted with the locality of which he spoke.

page 449 note a For the account of this voyage, see a letter from Quiros to Don Antonio de Morga, cap. vi. p. 29, of “De Morga's Sucesos en las Islas Filipinas,” Mexico, 1609, 4to.; and Figueroa's “Hechos de Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza, quarto Marques de Cañete,” Madrid, 1613, 4to., 1. 6, p. 238.

page 457 note a The inhabitants of the coast of Solor are specially mentioned as fishermen by Crawfurd, in his “Dictionary of the Indian Islands.”

page 457 note b This is the Island of Flores. In a “List of the principal gold mines obtained by the explorations (curiosidade) of Manoel Godinho de Heredea, Indian cosmographer, resident in Malaca for twenty years and more,” also publishedwith the “Ordenações da India,” Lisbon, 1807, the same story is told, but the Island Ende is there called Ilha do Conde.