> Howie Coombe wrote to Kevin Jcjd Symons Re: AUSTRALIAN NATIVE HERBS 1
Kevin  > sat UTGT {at} 0953ore on the 5th of March, 2003 Cooee Howie!!


G'day Kevin,.

 >> HC> Aha, But in the 1500's Tasmania was not called Tasmania,
it was called

 >>  In the 1500's Tasmania was not known as anything except to the local

 > HC> You are right, it was not even dicovered untill the mid 1600's,.

 >> IIRC, Abel Tasman did not see the island until 1652, and called
it Van      >> Dieman's land.

 > HC> Aha, who was Van Dieman anyway,?.

 >  Anthony van Dieman [1593-1645] was a Dutch admiral.


Aha,.

 > He was the governor general of the Netherlands [East] Indies
[Indonesia?, I  > think].


Aha, and yes the dutch east indies was Indonesia,.

 > He supervised expeditions to Australia in 1636 and 1642, and Abel
Tasman     > was the navigator on the latter one.


Aha, good for him,.

 > Tasman discovered land not chartered by Europeans, and named it Van  
       > Dieman's Land.


Aha,.

 >> It was later re-named Tasmania in 1856, in his honour.

 > HC> 204 Years? What took them so long? why did they change it then?

 >  Mainland Australia had not yet been claimed by the Poms when Tasman
was     > particpating in the Timor to Hobart Yacht race!


Aha,.

 > Apparently the French were particpants in the race, too.


Now that is interesting,.

 > I see that relics/remains have been found in southern Victoria of    
       > carvings/artefacts from a French expedition around that time.


Aha,.

 > Cooee and Love, Kevin... XXXXXXXXXXX " The end of the world has
been         > postponed for 19 days owing to the lack of UN trumpet
players "


Oh goody,.

 > ... You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.


Unless you Really like pain,.

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