gold, and all kinds of metals and minerals, and precious stones, cloves, nutmegs, mace, and sandalwoods, and other riches. After 3 days he returned to the bay of the fishermen, and then gave information about his voyage in the year 1610. In Report of Meridional India (1610) Eredia mentioned that the Javanese people of Luca Antara in all of their customs and in figure resemble the Javanese of Sunda (West Java), only a slight difference in the language, which he described as "much the same as between the Castillian and the Portuguese". The hair extends as far as the shoulders, the tonsure resembles the tonsure of Balinese people, with a curiously curved contour. Objections The statement of Lucaantara being Australia is objected by Richard Henry Major, in Archaeologia (1873). p. 243 et sqq. His objections is responded by J. V. Mills in Eredia's Description of Malaca, Meridional India, and Cathay (1930). pp. 188–190. The arguments is as follow: Notes See also Makassan contact with Australia Trepanging, the act of collecting sea cucumber Patorani and padewakang, two types of perahu used for trepanging by Makassan Yolngu Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia Baijini, a race of mythical or historical people mentioned in the Djanggawul song cycle of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land. Marchinbar Island, location of a deposit of early coins in Australia Jave la Grande, according to Marco Polo, the largest island in the world. References Further reading De Eredia, Manuel Godinho (1613). Description of Malacca and Meridional India. Translated from the Portuguese with notes by J. V. Mills in Eredia's Description of Malaca, Meridional India, and Cathay, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. VIII, April 1930. Jones, John Winter (1863). The travels of Ludovico di Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508. Hakluyt Society. Nugroho, Irawan Djoko (2011). Majapahit Peradaban Maritim. Suluh Nuswantara Bakti. . Triastanti, Ani. Perdagangan Internasional pada Masa Jawa Kuno; Tinjauan Terhadap Data Tertulis Abad X-XII. Essay of Faculty of Cultural Studies. Gadjah Mada University of Yogyakarta, 2007. Australia–Indonesia relations History of Australia before 1788 History of Indigenous Australians History of Indonesia History of Java Maritime history of Australia Yolngu Pre-1606 contact with Australia Islam in Australia