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PAUL AND DIEDRICH ARE MAROONED IN A GREAT UNKNOWN LAND.

Marooned on Australia

BEING THE NARRATION BY DIEDRICH BUYS OF
HIS  DISCOVERIES   AND  EXPLOITS   IN   TERRA
AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA  ABOUT  THE  YEAR 1630

BY

ERNEST FAVENC

Author of“Tales of the Austral Tropics” “The Secret of the Australian Desert”
“The History of Australian Exploration” &c.


BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY

Dedicated to the Memory of my Friend

Edmond Marin de la Meslee”
 

by whose accidental death Australia
lost both an ardent geographer and an
enthusiastic student of the history of
the Austral Continent.
ERNEST FAVENC

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PREFACE.

IN the following romance I have endeavoured to associate the traditionof De Gonneville’s visit to Australia with the historical fact of thewreck of the Batavia, and the marooning of two of the mutineers. Thewreck of the Batavia is perhaps one of the most murderous tragediesthat ever happened in any part of the world. One of the ruffiansconfessed, before being hanged, to having killed and assisted to kill,twenty-five defenceless people. A full account of the wreck and themassacre will be found in Pinkerton’s Early Voyages.

I have taken a liberty with history in introducing Captain Sharpe, thebuccaneer, as in reality he never visited the Australian coast, althoughsome of his crew did. I must also confess to having taken some freedomwith chronology as, under the name of Hoogstraaten, I have introducedAbel Janz Tasman many years before{6} his actual advent on the westerncoast of Australia; and De Witt’s voyage of discovery really took placebefore the wreck of the Batavia. I trust, however, that in a romancethese inaccuracies will be pardoned.

In the appendix the reader will find an account of the setting up of thegreat Cross by De Gonneville, and the record of

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