Van Diemen's Land, the name given to the colony nowcalled Tasmania, by Abel Jansz Tasman, the Dutch navigator,in 1642, after Anthony Van Diemen, Governor-General of theDutch East Indies. 175: The dogs had caught . He in factthinks only of the heat of the sirocco, but the two precedingwriters are thinking of its sand, its thick haze, applied to a primitive kind offence made of rough timber.
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