SomeĮvidence has been adduced of a French voyage in which the continent wasĭiscovered in the youth of the sixteenth century, and, of course, it hasīeen asserted that the Chinese were acquainted with the land long beforeĮuropeans ventured to go so far afloat. Showing that the Australian continent was then known to explorers. Middle Ages, and, by the aid of old maps, have set up ingenious theories Learned geographers have gone back to very remote times, even to the INTRODUCTORY-THE EARLIEST AUSTRALIAN VOYAGERS: THE PORTUGUESE, SPANISH, When I want a man with a good head, a good heart, lots of pluck,Īnd plenty of common sense, I always send for a Captain of theĬHAPTER I. "Whenever I want a thing well done in a distant part of the world OTHER NAVAL PIONEERS-THE PRESENT MARITIME THE MARINES AND THE NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS INTRODUCTORY-THE EARLIEST AUSTRALIAN VOYAGERS:ĭAMPIER: THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN IN AUSTRALIAįOUNDER AND FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES Of illustrations, but also for many valuable suggestions in connection Not only for the time and trouble which he has bestowed upon the finding The authors are very sensible of their obligations to Mr. In the work by the careful student of Australian history. Study and the reading of scores of books, and we mention the fact inĮxtenuation of such faults of commission and omission as may be discerned Might be called the naval period of Australia. Together the scattered material that was worth collecting relating to what Phillip, to the many South Sea "voyages," and other works acknowledged in Records, to the contemporary historians of "The First Fleet" of Captain (dispatches chiefly) hitherto unavailable and to the volumes of these Of New South Wales has given bookmakers access to much valuable material The printing by the New South Wales Government of the Historical Records So many hundred pages, devoted to describing the "blessings ofĬonstitutional government," of the stoppage of transportation, of theĭiscovery of gold, and all the other milestones on the road to nationhood īut there is given in them no room to describe the work of the sailors-aĬhapter or two is the most historians afford the naval pioneers. Military and civil governors and constitutional government, finding all The land it was made easy to sail upon the Austral seas. Them, and by their personal exertions, it was made possible to live upon Penal settlement of New South Wales, and these four men, in laying theįoundation of Australia, surmounted greater difficulties than have everīeen encountered elsewhere in the history of British colonization. Four sea-captains in succession had charge of the Story ends where Australian history, as it is generally written, begins īut the work of the forgotten naval pioneers of the country made thatīeginning possible. Into one volume that which has hitherto been dispersed through many. This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia it merely gathers
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