SPANIARDS AT SYDNEY

Evening Star, Issue 17032, 1 May 1919, Page 7

SPANIARDS AT SYDNEY

MALASPDSTA'S VISIT IN; 1793. [By T. Dtjotabin.] Few things in our history are more remarkable than the oblivion into which has fallen the voyage of the great Spanish circumnavigator Don Alexandre Malaspina. who visited Australia and 'N«\v Zealand in 1793 (Bays T. Dunbabin, in the Melbourne 'Argus'). The narrative of Malaspina'a vovage has never been translated into English u f' it eems to have eluded t it not ce of waters on Vustralaaian histon until Ribeii Al\ib the historian of old \ti 7ealand ptocm d i cop} aitei thiee \eais of patient <<eiTch Ono Im-tr-h in histomn hj id V \ ib tells U" got on the trick of this woik but ib indontd the put Kiit co k hiding' tlut the proceeding of the \oyige Ind nevei been published "Nothing has suipri a cd the uthoi mcio diuinj his long 'earth whites M ]S i*> in tin pief e to hs MnnV u than tho great mass of discovery work found placed upon record in books, but never translated i no onr lan u ge and the number it i reat explorers scarcely known to our writers e\on hs nimt With two of the e \m aie brought niiu contiet m tht pit&ent v.oik—• the leat '-.paiinici Mhhspi n and the equal! gi it Hu iui Amtnctit etuloier I usen lho foimci t lied Doubt f ji So m d in Y78 7 ) the littei Vacoua l Island in 1820. The British. 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had .received, while in New Soutti Wal«V such attention and hospitality," A very enthusiastic account of the Toyr Oge, published soon after Malaspina'a. return to Spain in an American newdpaper, the 'Salem Gazette' (the writer of vrhiesh' etates "that the voyage " had not caused a single tear to be shed"), ends by remark- * ing that Malasj>in,i and bis companions } were to be suitably,/ewarded. But Malaa*. ' pina received little gratitude. Ais.the rc- ■ suit, apparently, of a. court inU-igao he; was 1 thrown into prison, and langubhed there * for a enumber of i "__"