History of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890

CHAPTER I.

THE EARLY DISCOVERERS.

#1.# To the people who lived four centuries ago in Europe only a very small portion of the earth's surface was known. Their geography was confined to the regions lying immediately around the Mediterranean, and including Europe, the north of Africa, and the west of Asia. Round these there was a margin, obscurely and imperfectly described i...