A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . e bay it was ^ Ben 4 Julij des iiachts—on the 4th of July, at night. ^ Graedt-boogh. See the preceding page, note 2. ^ So in the original. But the sense requires ^north-east and by north,that being the next point to ?• ^e?i laff/ie tiytstekeaden hoeck—a low projecting point. Through somemisconception, Phillip repeatedly has long for low. Lac/he—low. 12 THE NAVIGATIOX 20 fadome dccpth, the ground small blacke stones, like pease:from Langcncs to Cape
A true description of three voyages by the north-east towards Cathay and China : undertaken by the Dutch in the years 1594, 1595 and 1596 . e bay it was ^ Ben 4 Julij des iiachts—on the 4th of July, at night. ^ Graedt-boogh. See the preceding page, note 2. ^ So in the original. But the sense requires ^north-east and by north,that being the next point to ?• ^e?i laff/ie tiytstekeaden hoeck—a low projecting point. Through somemisconception, Phillip repeatedly has long for low. Lac/he—low. 12 THE NAVIGATIOX 20 fadome dccpth, the ground small blacke stones, like pease:from Langcncs to Cape Bapo^ cast north-east it is 4 [16] Cape Bapo to the west point of Lombsbay north-eastand by north are 5 [20] miles, and betwccne them both thereare 2 creekcs. Lombsbay is a great wide bay, on the westside thereof hauing a faire hauen 6, 7, or 8, fadome dcepe,black sand : there they went on shore with their boate, andvpon the shore i)laced a beacon, made of an old mast whichthey found there; calling the bay Lombsbay, because of acertaine kind of beares so called, which they found there ingreat aboundance. LoMS Bay. LiOmmeiv afte VToordtschePoui ?pegay^n. The east point of Lombsbay, is a long narrow point, andby it there lycth an island, and from that long point to sca- ^ Capo Baxo—Low Point. From the long connection of the Nether-lands with Spain, the Dutch navigators appear to have employed theSpanish language for trivial names like Low Point, Black Point,as being more distinctive than the vernacular. ?^ Eeuderlei] aert van voghelen—a certain kind of binh. This strangemistake of the tramslator has given occasion to frequent comment. Itis the more unaccountable, as the original work contains a pictorialrepresentation of these birds,—noordtsche jiapegai/en, or northern parrots,as they are there called,—in connection with the plan (reproduced above)of Lomsl)ay; ,and it is also expressly stated, that the bay has its namefrom the l)irds which dwell there i
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