Journael van Jan Carstensz. op de ghedaene reyse van Nova Guinea. Edited in L.C.D. van Dijk, Twee togten naar de Golf van Carpentaria. Amsterdam: J.H. Scheltema, 1859.

On this publication

Like many other log-books and travel reports, the journal of Jan Carstenszoon’s 1623 exploration of the Gulf of Carpentaria, then considered part of New Guinea, had remained unpublished in its own time. In the course of the 19th century the tendency in many disciplines to return to the original sources, resulted in the editing of many hitherto almost unknown texts. L.C.D. van Dijk (1824-1860) edited and annotated this journal, based on a handwritten copy, signed by Jan Carstensz

Acknowledgements

Digitized copy: Koninklijke Bibliotheek 821 A 34

The translation of the ‘Journael van Jan Carstensz. op de ghedaene reyse van Nova Guinea’ was partly taken from J.E. Heeres, Het aandeel der Nederlanders in de ontdekking van Australië 1606-1765 = The Part borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Leiden: E.J. Brill / London: Luzac & Co, 1899.