A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699

The author recounts a maritime voyage among islands and coasts north of Australia and around New Guinea, recording anchorages, searching for fresh water, and correcting faulty charts while finding new passages. He describes encounters with Dutch and Portuguese settlements, local inhabitants and craft, trading attempts, and navigational hazards such as strong currents, whirlpools, and burning isles. Extended natural-history notes catalogue plants, trees, birds, fishes, and unusually large shellfish, illustrated with maps and plates. The voyage narrative concludes with stops at Batavia, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension, where the ship is lost but the crew reaches safety.