Voyage to New Guinea and the Moluccas, From Balambangan e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It is to be regretted, that Dampier, who failed to New Britain in the Roebuck 1699, had not {ben' Linfchooten's map, publifhed but four'years'be fore. Such a guide might have induced him to put into harbours which he did not vifit, not knowing they exified for the leaft additional light to a dif coverer may be productive of important confe quences.