Excerpt from Australasia, Vol. 1

For this reason the Portuguese were very careful to keep the secret of their discoveries in the South seas, and they cleverly disguised their charts so that the actual position of the Australian coast was wrongly indicated, and this made the charts useless to all navigators except their own, who knew how to read them correctly by a secret code of explanation.

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