. Young folks library . ermination to keep and preserve hisjournal through all the hardships, dangers and tempta-tions of his varied career, deserves appreciation. Thepublished accounts of his early bucaneering voyagesmade him famous; and solely on the ground of hisscientific and hterary merits, certainly not for his char-acter, which was notorious, in 1698 he was appointedto command the Eoebuck on a government exploringexpedition into the waters of the southern Pacific, andalong the coast of New Holland, which he had pre-viously visited. He sailed from England in January,1699, and sighted the
. Young folks library . ermination to keep and preserve hisjournal through all the hardships, dangers and tempta-tions of his varied career, deserves appreciation. Thepublished accounts of his early bucaneering voyagesmade him famous; and solely on the ground of hisscientific and hterary merits, certainly not for his char-acter, which was notorious, in 1698 he was appointedto command the Eoebuck on a government exploringexpedition into the waters of the southern Pacific, andalong the coast of New Holland, which he had pre-viously visited. He sailed from England in January,1699, and sighted the western coast of New Holland,or Australia, on July 26. During August he searchedalong the coast, finding no convenient harbor or river,and unable to get water or provisions. The followingpages give his own account of his experiences from thistime until his departure for the island of Timor, to thenorthward. EXPLORING IN THE SOUTH SEAS (Fbom an Account of New Holland and the Adjacent Islands.)Bt captain WILLIAM W but had no smell. E were now on the inner side ofthe island, on whose outside isthe Bluff point. We rode a leaguefrom the island, and I presently wentashore and carried shovels to digfor water, but found none. Theregrow here two or three sorts ofshrubs, one just like rosemary, andtherefore I called this RosemaryIsland ; it grew in great plenty here,Some of the other shrubs had blueand yellow flowers; and we found two sorts of grainlike beans; the one grew on bushes, the other on a sortof creeping vine that runs along on the ground, havingvery thick broad leaves, and the blossom like a beanblossom, but much larger and of a deep red color, look-ing very beautiful. We saw here some cormorants,gulls, crab-catchers, etc., a few small land birds, and asort of white parrot, which flew a great many found some shell-fish, viz., limpets, periwinkles, andabundance of small oysters growing on the rocks, whichwere very sweet. In the sea we saw some green turtl
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