Note 16 — EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK OF DISPATCHES FROM BATAVIA; COMMENCING JANUARY THE 15TH, 1644, AND ENDING NOVEMBER THE 29TH FOLLOWING.
Reading edition
The word “laut” means south, but is erroneously spelt in the original translation “landt.” A similar blunder has been abundantly repeated on the maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the name of “Laut Chidol,” the Southern Sea, there spelt constantly Lantchidol.