Show 10 io o THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAMINER v TUESDAY EVENING JULY 12 1927 1 THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE 30 AUSTRALIA Sketches by Bessey Synopsis by Braucher A v Y If A message scratched upon an old tin dinner plate iI and to a is one of the earliest earest records avail avail- Sailors of Spain One of Dampier's company was Alexander Selkirk Sel ir marooned akie n pf The discovery of Australia The William Dampier pi pirate pi- pi pirate the original Robinson Crusoe Selkirk was proclamation was Portugal Holland and rate and scholar was Fernandez and was rescued after of Juan up by y Pith prk Hartog Dutch explorer in 1616 France all claimed to on the island lived in Aus first to then in the Cannibals The rI S V three e centuries and is Englishman four years by Dampier have discovered the kept as a mu- mu land He set foot on oi the natives were adept with the boomerang eum ii The ms rd-at rd Hart however island continent in the Hartog S. S Australia in its ably was i not ot the first to see two centuries after Co reached a strange stick which conies comes back to starting point O 1 f 1688 7 iZ To Be Continued on Ti Th B Ook V of t 1 I J lumbus s. s to eo |