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Navigators and Their Discoveries

           AfterthissadoccurrenceTasmansetsail,confininghisrevengetogivingthenativesafewmusket-shots,whichprobablydidnotreachthem.HeleftthisbaywhichstillbearsthenameofMassacreBayfollowedthewesterncoast,andonthe5thofJanuary,anchorednearthenorthern-mostpoint.Heretheviolenceofthesurf,aswellastheunfriendlyattitudeofthenatives,preventedhisobtainingwater,andhefinallyquittedtheseshores,givingthemthenameStaten-landortheLandoftheStates,inhonoroftheStates-General.

           TheDutchnavigatorconcludedthattheseislandswereadjacenttotheislandsofthesamenameontheeastofTerradelFuego,atthesouthernpointoftheAmericancontinent.Hethoughthehadfound"theGreatSouthernContinent."

           "But,"saidPaganeltohimself,"whataseventeenthcenturysailormightcalla‘continent’wouldneverstandforonewithanineteenthcenturyman.Nosuchmistakecanbesupposed!No!thereissomethingherethatbafflesme."

           

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