On the Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601
BY
R. H. MAJOR, Esq., F.S.A.
BEING
A SUPPLEMENT TO THE VOLUME OF “EARLY VOYAGES TO TERRA AUSTRALIS.”
Extract from a letter addressed to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., “On the Discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601, five years before the earliest discovery hitherto recorded; communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, by Richard Henry Major, Esq., F.S.A.,” now distributed to the Members of the Hakluyt Society for insertion as a Supplement to the Volume of “Early Voyages to Terra Australis,” by the same author.
From the Archæologia. Vol. xxxviii.