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This would point to a Portugese discovery of Australia immediately preceding the Dutch one. In Cornelius Wytfliet's "Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum," Louvain, 1598, the following passage is to be found:
Leoni Africani totius Africæ Descriptionis. Lib. VIII. Leyd. 1682. 8vo. This work was originally written in Arabic, then translated into Italian by the author, and from Italian into Latin, French, Dutch, and English.
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