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Abel Janszoon Tasman

  

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Abel Janszoon Tasman : [unknown]

'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "Sanjuis draconis", as possibly also that which Tasman saw upon Van Diemen's Land, where he says he saw gum on the trees, and gum lac on the ground.' (See his voyage in a collection published at London in 1694, p. 133)

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks      Print: Book
  

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