Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II.
A List of the Papers handed to Skipper Commander Abel Jansz. Tasman (with Destination for the Discovery of the South Land)
A List of the Papers handed to Skipper Commander Abel Jansz. Tasman (with Destination for the Discovery of the South Land).
No. 1. |
Instructions for the commander aforesaid. |
No. 2. |
Observations by Skipper Marten Gerritsz. Vries touching the discovery of the south land.* |
No. 3. |
Disquisition touching the same discovery by the Pilot-major Francoys Jacobsz.* |
No. 4. |
Memoir by the same on the same subject. |
No. 5. |
Spanish description of Nova Guinea and the Salomonis Islands.* |
No. 6. |
Copy of the Instructions for Commander Gerrit Pool for the discovery of the unknown lands eastward of Banda, and of the south land.† |
No. 7. |
Vocabulary of certain words of the languages of the Salomonis Islands, of Nova Guinea, and of the islands circumjacent. |
No. 8. |
Invoice of the cargoes of the “Heemskerck” and the “Zeehaen.”† |
No. 9. |
Inventory of the “Heemskerck.”* |
No. 10. |
Do. of the “Zeehaen.”* |
* No longer extant.
† Not reproduced.