Tasman was instructed to inquire from the native inhabitants for Pelsart's two convicts, and to bring them away with him, IF THEY ENTREATED HIM; but they were never heard of again.

Tasman sailed round a great portion of the Australian coast, discovered what he named Van Diemen's land, now Tasmania, and New Zealand.

He it was who called the whole, believing it to be one, New Holland, after the land of his birth.

Next we have Dampier, an English buccaneer--though the name sounds very like Dutch; it was probably by chance only that he and his roving crew visited these shores.

Then came Wilhelm Vlaming with three ships.