I Say Nothing Of The
Discoveries That Yet Remain With Regard To Inland Countries, Because
These Fall Properly Under Another Head, I Mean That Of Travels.
But
it will be time enough to think of penetrating into the heart of
countries when we have discovered the sea-coasts of the whole globe,
towards which the voyages recorded in this chapter have so far
advanced already.
But the only means to arrive at these great ends,
and to transmit to posterity a fame approaching, at least in some
measure, to that of our ancestors, is to revive and restore that
glorious spirit which led them to such great exploits; and the most
natural method of doing this is to collect and preserve the memory
of their exploits, that they may serve at once to excite our
imitation, encourage our endeavours, and point out to us how they
may be best employed, and with the greatest probability of success.
AN ACCOUNT OF NEW HOLLAND AND THE ADJACENT ISLANDS.
1699-1700.
BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DAMPIER.
Having described his voyage from Brazil to New Holland, this
celebrated navigator thus proceeds:
About the latitude of 26 degrees south we saw an opening, and ran
in, hoping to find a harbour there; but when we came to its mouth,
which was about two leagues wide, we saw rocks and foul ground
within, and therefore stood out again; there we had twenty fathom
water within two miles of the shore: the land everywhere appeared
pretty low, flat, and even, but with steep cliffs to the sea, and
when we came near it there were no trees, shrubs, or grass to be
seen.
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