The First Discovery of Australia And New Guinea
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The islands on the western coast, known as Houtman's Abrolhos, * and thosenear Sharks' Bay, are all charted with the reefs that surround them, although they bear no names on this map.
[* _Abrolhos_ is a Portuguese word applied to reefs; literally, it means"open your eyes. "] Lower down, there is a strange name, that has led to some strangermistakes; it is LAMA, or LAME DE SYLLA, written HAME DE SILLE on anotherof these maps. It is a curious jumble that I have not been able todecipher; it occurs... close to the mouth of the Swan River of moderncharts.
Later French and Dutch map-makers took it for the name of an island inthat locality.
Now, in those days, navigators and geographers were constantly in searchof certain more or less fictitious islands, among which, the "Island ofMen" and the "Island of Women, " had been sought for in vain.
Could this be one of the lost islands? The old-fashioned letter s, resembling an f, made _Hame de sille_ look like _Hame de fille_, and aFrench geographer jumped at the conclusion that the word was _fille_, andthat he had found the long lost island.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The islands on the western coast, known as Houtman's Abrolhos, * and thosenear Sharks' Bay, are all charted with the reefs that surround them, although they bear no names on this map.
[* _Abrolhos_ is a Portuguese word applied to reefs; literally, it means"open your eyes. "] Lower down, there is a strange name, that has led to some strangermistakes; it is LAMA, or LAME DE SYLLA, written HAME DE SILLE on anotherof these maps. It is a curious jumble that I have not been able todecipher; it occurs... close to the mouth of the Swan River of moderncharts.
Later French and Dutch map-makers took it for the name of an island inthat locality.
Now, in those days, navigators and geographers were constantly in searchof certain more or less fictitious islands, among which, the "Island ofMen" and the "Island of Women, " had been sought for in vain.
Could this be one of the lost islands? The old-fashioned letter s, resembling an f, made _Hame de sille_ look like _Hame de fille_, and aFrench geographer jumped at the conclusion that the word was _fille_, andthat he had found the long lost island.
What to read after The First Discovery of Australia And New Guinea?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Collingridge George to read onlineMoreLess
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