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| | Abel Tasman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Abel Janszzoon Tasman's Journal, edited by J E Heeres, was originally published by Frederick Muller, Amsterdam in 1898 and is several books in one. |
 | | The one in the Archives Department at The Hague, Holland, is signed by Tasman; and the other important manuscript, a contemporary account probably written for Salomon Sweers, who was a member of the Council of India, is the manuscript in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. |
 | | As Tasman failed to sail through the strait, he missed making the discovery that New Zealand was a group of islands--a discovery that was made by Captain Cook in 1769. |
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