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Title: Adventures in Southern Seas
A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

Author: George Forbes

Release Date: September 16, 2005 [eBook #16704]
Language: English
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ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN SEAS
A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
by
GEORGE FORBES
First published August 1920 by George
G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. 39-41 Parker
Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2
Reprinted July 1924
Printed in Great Britain by Neill & Co. Ltd., Edinburgh



INTRODUCTORY
In the year 1801 was found by the chief coxswain of the "Naturalist" (a
ship commanded by Captain Hamelin on a voyage of discovery performed by
order of the Emperor Napoleon I), at Shark's Bay, on the coast of West
Australia, a pewter plate about six inches in diameter, bearing a
roughly engraved Dutch inscription, of which the following is a
translation:
"1616
"On the 25th of October arrived here the ship 'Endraght',
of Amsterdam; first supercargo Gilles Miebas Van Luck;
Captain Dirk Hartog, of Amsterdam.
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