The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea

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at their ideas were like all original idea

ortuguese and Spanish discoveries in Papuas and New G

used in the compilation of this map have been lost or hav

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l's head and neck. They come under the name of OS PAPUAS, and the islands where Me

Papuas and Nova Guinea represent, no doubt,

s no name) as having been the sojourn of Martin Alfonso de Melo,* a Portuguese navigator, whose name

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in New

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