The East and West Indian mirror : being an account of Joris van Speilbergen's voyage round the world (1614-1617), and the Australian navigations of Jacob Le Maire / translated with notes and an introduction by J.A.J. De Villiers.

  • Spilbergen, Joris van, approximately 1568-1620.
Date:
1906
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Credit: The East and West Indian mirror : being an account of Joris van Speilbergen's voyage round the world (1614-1617), and the Australian navigations of Jacob Le Maire / translated with notes and an introduction by J.A.J. De Villiers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing* 1 the authorship of Speilbergen’s Journal to Jan Cornelisz. May,2 and it being imperative to explode such an error, slavishly copied by later historians and bibliographers, by tracing it to its source, it consequently becomes necessary to set out, some¬ what at length, the following details. A long dissertation might be written, after the manner in which Camus3 has treated the subject, upon the correlation of the various editions of the Nieuwe Oost ende West Indische Navigatien, and the sequence in which they appeared ; it will pro¬ bably serve every useful purpose, however, if here it be simply placed upon record that a very careful comparison of all the earlier editions proves the natural sequence of publication to be also biblio- graphically correct — i.e., that the Dutch edition published by Geelkercken at Amsterdam in 1619 is the original version, being followed most closely and fully (though not always with a correct render¬ ing, and often with a frank, intelligible evasion of used by de Brosses. (See note 2, infra, and note 5 on p. xix.) For the passage in question, see note 3, p. xvii. 1 Chronological History, pp. 330 and 353. Vide p. xx, note. 2 It was first definitely so attributed, obviously on de Renne- ville’s authority, by Charles de Brosses (1709-1777), President of the Parliament of Dijon, in his Histoire des Navigations aux Terres Australes, Paris, 1756, tom. i, p. 343. (Vide note 5, p. xix.) 3 Armand Gaston Camus (1740-1804), Secretary to the National Convention and Keeper of the Archives. In his work entitled M'emoire sur la Collection [of de Bry and Thevenot] des Grands et Petits Voyages (Paris, 1802, pp. 153-159) he describes Speil¬