Note 32 — II. (continued 2)

The accounts of the voyages that follow have been taken by me from the volumes Begin ende Voortgangh already mentioned, and François Valentijn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien, five huge volumes published at Amsterdam in 1726, checked by the narratives in the first three volumes of J. K. J. de Jonge’s De Opkomst van het Nederlandsch Gezag in Oost Indie, published at the Hague and Amsterdam in 1862-65. I also made use of the last volume of Diogo de Couto’s Da Asia, in order to get the Portuguese version of these events, but obtained very little information in it. His work ends with an account of a Dutch disaster at Achin before the principal voyages were undertaken. Of course the Dutch were to him pirates and rebels.