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199
Sandy Bay, 162
San Felipe y Santiago, showing signs of being the coast of a southern continent, 23; discovered, 37
Santa Cruz, discovered by Mendana de JMeyra, 18
Santa jMaria, discovered and named by Torres, 37
Santa Polouia, island, 32
Santarem, Yicomte de, " Essai sur • I'histoire de la Cosmographie ... du Moyen Age," xiii
San Valerio, island, 32
Sardam, frigate, 71
Schildpats island, 172
Schiller, Andries, steward of Pool, 75 ; killed by the Southlauders, 76
Sea snakes seen by Dampier, 151
Sea, tui'ning white, twice a-year, be- tween Banda and the South Land, 97
Sequeira, Gomez de, voyage, xlvi
Serpent, a divinity of the heathens of New Guinea and New Holland, 95
Serrano, Francisco, goes to Banda in 1511, lx
Silva, Fray Juan de, treatise on the southern hemisphere, 1; extract, 2
Snip, patsjallang, sent to the wreck of the Zeewijck, 186
Solomon islands, discovered by Men- dana, lxx
Sondur island, xv
South Laud, v. Australia
Southern continent, existence of, be- lieved anterior to Portuguese dis- coveries, xiii
Southern India, of Gonneville, being Madagascar, xxi
Spain, claim to the discovery of Aus- tralia, xxi
Spult, island, discovery, 45
St. Brandan, island, ii
St. Paul, island, Vlamingh's expedi- tion was to land there, 113
Sta. Maria, v. Santa Maria
Stabroeck, wreck, 182
Steyns, Jan, communication about the wreck of the Zeewijck, 179, 180 ; indicted before the court, 181
Strabo, speaks of a southern conti- nent, xiii
Struyck, Nicholas, tract, containing an account of Dampier's voyage, 114
Swans, black, cviii, 114
Taomaco, island, 36
Tasman, Abel Janszen, discovers Tas- mania, explores Torres Straits, xciii ; his lost papers quoted by Witsen, xciv; outlines of the coasts visited by him, represented on the floor of the Stadhuis at Amster- dam, xcv; maps, xcvi; notes of his voyage by Witsen, xcviii; instruc- tions for the expedition to New Guinea, 43 ; map found wrong by Dampier, 152
Temple, Sir William, on the secrecy of the Dutch about their discove- ries, vi
Ternate, on the Moluccas, fortified, xxxvii
Testu, Guillaume le, v. Le Testu
Themara, Francisco, Libro de las cos- tumbres, lxiv
Theopompus, mentions an island be- yond the then known world, ii
Thevet, " Cosmographie Universelle," 1575, Ixvi
Tierra baiza, Ixviii
Tierra del Fuego, discovered by Magel- haens, xxvi ; mistaken for New Guinea, ib.
Tin plate, with the names of Dirk Hartog and others of the Eendraght, found by Vlamingh's expedition, 130
Toppors-hoetien, island, 68
Tomai, the chief of Taomaco, 36
Tobi island, v. Lord North's island
Torres, Luis Vaez de, commander of the Almirante, Ixxiii ; discoveries, 20 ; relation of the discoveries of Quiros, 31
Torres' Straits, name, lxxii ; passed by Tasman, xcii
Trial Rocks, opinions on, 186
Tristan d'Acunha, drawing of ; Vla- mingh's expedition was to land there, 113, 119
Turtledove, shoal, 177
Vaderland, Getrouw, s', extract from
the skipper's journal, 187 Valerio, San, v. San Valerio Vallard, Nicholas, MS. Atlas with his
name, xxxv
