This exceedingly scarce printed narrative, which had been zealously sought for by the editor for several years, and had eluded the search of previous writers, reached his hands at the very critical moment to admit of its being translated and inserted in its proper place in the volume, the next in sequence to the present paper. Although of no great interest except as an original account of the voyage, it is important to know of what it consists, and it is the editor’s grateful duty to state that it is solely to the zeal, intelligence, and kindness of Mr. Frederick Müller, of Amsterdam, that he is indebted for the good fortune of procuring the use of the document.
“Further: ‘1697, February 4th. Arrived here the ship _Geelvinck_, of Amsterdam: captain commandant, Wilhem van Vlaming, of Vlielandt; assistant, Jan van Bremen, of Copenhagen; first pilot, Michéel Bloem van Estight, of Bremen; the hooker the _Nyptangh_: captain Gerrit Collaert, of Amsterdam; assistant, Theodorus Heermans, of the same place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz, of Bremen; then the galliot _Weseltje_: commander, Cornelis van Vlaming, of Vlielandt; pilot, Coert Gerritzs, of Bremen. Sailed from here with our fleet on the 12th, to explore the south land, and afterwards bound for Batavia.’”
This word, which is perhaps misspelt, does not occur in Nemnick’s polyglot _Lexicon der Naturgeschichte_.
It has not been deemed necessary for the present purpose to reproduce these plates.
In Dr. Brown’s _Prodromus Floræ Novæ Hollandiæ et Insulæ Van Diemen_, occurs the following under the family of Goodenoviæ: “Genus Scævolæ et Diaspasi propinquum, sed ab iisdem sat distinctum, dixi in memoriam Gulielmi Dampier, navarchi et peregrinatoris celeberrimi, in variis suis itineribus naturæ semper assidui observatoris, nec botanicem negligentis, qui oram occidentalem Novæ Hollandiæ bis visitavit, cujus regionis plantæ aliquæ depictæ in relatione itineris extant, et inter ineditas secum reportatas (quarum plures nunc in Museo Oxoniensi asservantur) _Dampiera incana_ fuit.”
Trachydosaurus rugosus. Family of lizards Scincidæ.
Given in the Assembly of the Seventeen, on the 7th December, 1619.
The western limit of these dangerous shoals, in long. 113° 20´ E., and the south-easternmost patch called Turtle Dove, is in lat. 29° 10´, long. 113° 57´. _Horsburgh_, London, 1838.