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Le quatre, août, 1687 (4th August)

French naval surgeon Brémond wrote: ‘Le 4e du mois nous avons veu la terre de la concorde ou terre auxtralles …’ Brémond was 'le chirurgien major’ for the voyage of L’oiseau from Brest to Siam. His illustrated journal of the second French embassy to Siam includes this ‘first verified French sighting of Australia’.