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Early Australian Voyages

CHAPTER XIII: HE ARRIVES AT THE ARCHIPELAGO OF ANTHONG JAVA
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This land proved to be a cluster of twenty islands, which in the maps are called Anthong Java.

They lie ninety miles or thereabouts from the coast of New Guinea.

It may not be amiss to observe here, that what Captain Tasman calls the coast of New Guinea, is in reality the coast of New Britain, which Captain Dampier first discovered to be a large island separated from the coast of New Guinea..


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