This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, from the 1886 Cassell & Company edition. EARLY AUSTRALIAN VOYAGES by John Pinkerton Contents: Introduction Pelsart Tasman Dampier INTRODUCTION. In the days of Plato, imagination found its way, before the mariners, to a new world across the Atlantic, and fabled an Atlantis where America now stands.