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Usage examples of austral.

That is, it gives the date of 1499 for the discovery of the Austral region.

New Guinea was supposed to be connected with Australia, it follows that we have in the above statement of Andrea Corsali the reason, at least, for the presence on subsequent maps of the Shonerean term Brasielie Regio, as applied to the Austral Continent.

His argument is based on the occurrence of another American name, Brazil, on the Austral continent.

No historian, no documents of the sixteenth century mention the existence of such an Austral mainland.

Batavia in January 1628, in the hopes of passing the Straits of Bali in the good season, but not having succeeded she was driven out of her course to the shores of the Austral lands of the unknown Magellanica.

Being in want of water, and his ship having suffered much by storm, the sight of some birds from the south induced him to hold his course that way, when he soon discovered a large country to which he gave the name of Austral India and Terre Australle, naming the inhabitants Australians.

May, when they anchored, calling the port La Vera Cruz, and the land La Austral del Espiritu Santo.

Prado y Tobar forwards the map of Santo as proof that the statements of the captain regarding his discovery of the great Austral Land were without foundation, I cannot but regard it as an additional argument in favour of my contention, that Santo cannot be the grand Austral continent of which De Quiros speaks and of which he claimed to be the discoverer.

I may be believed when I assert that Desolation Islands is the only suitable name for this group of three hundred isles or islets in the midst of the vast expanse of ocean, which is constantly disturbed by austral storms.

His face was as livid as that of the corpse that had drifted down from the far latitudes of the austral zone.

No doubt the charts were those of the austral latitudes, and the books were narratives of the precursors of the Jane in those mysterious regions of the south.

All the navigators of the austral seas have been able to ascertain, as I myself have done, the permanence of this wind.

And yet, there was nothing surprising in that, for everything is variable in the austral seas.

We should have to seek land of the austral zone under higher latitudes without being sure of ever coming across it!

Would that Heaven might grant success to the operation, for who could contemplate without terror having to brave the severity of the austral winter, and to pass six months under such conditions as ours on a vast iceberg, dragged none could tell whither?