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Updated: May 5, 2025

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:

Ernest Favenc - The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888

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.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 : Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and : Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth : Century, By William Stevenson