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by Pete Fitzsimons


  Witsen, Nicolaes, Aeloude and Hedendaegsche Scheepsbouw en Bestier, Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer, Amsterdam, 1671

  Wood, George Arnold, ‘Was Australia Known in the Sixteenth Century?’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. IV, Sydney, 1918

  Index

  Aboriginal communities encountered

  Aboriginal communities of Shark Bay and Murchison

  Aboriginal Yinggarda nation

  Abreu, António de

  Abrolhos Archipelago see Houtman Abrolhos Islands

  Allen, Greg

  Ambon

  Amsterdam

  Ariaensz, Ariaen

  Assendelft

  Banda Islands

  Bantam (Java)

  Barrentsz, Paulus

  Bastiaensz, Gijsbert see Predikant

  Batavia (Java)

  canals

  Carpentier, General Pieter

  citadel

  Dutch Batavian Republic

  forced labour

  garrison

  hub of VOC empire

  Jacatra, Coen attacks

  Jacatra, renamed Batavia

  location

  Mutineers tried by Council of Justice

  public punishment

  subsidiary VOC offices

  Sultan of Mataram attacks

  supplies

  Batavia: design

  anchors

  armoury

  barbers

  binnacle

  construction

  diagram of the Batavia

  dispensary

  figurehead

  flags of flagship

  galley

  gun deck

  hold

  ‘the hole’

  lanterns

  liquor stores

  maximum speed

  orlop deck

  sails

  shipworm protection

  water supply

  weapons

  windsail

  Batavia: maiden voyage

  accompanying fleet of eight

  alters course to lose fleet

  beer ration

  beginning of voyage

  cabin boys

  cargo (see also VOC money chests)

  class distinctions

  craftsmen

  crew numbers

  crew roster

  crew take oath of allegiance to VOC

  deaths and sea burials

  depth sounding

  discipline and punishment

  distance and speed of voyage

  family life

  Great Cabin

  gunners

  horse-thief game

  mealtimes

  mercenary soldiers

  officers and seamen

  passengers

  as pirate ship

  sailors

  scurvy

  seafaring shanties

  ship’s council

  supplies

  surgeon’s room

  Tafelbaai

  in the tropics

  Walcheren Banks, goes aground on

  women and children

  women of adventure

  Batavia: wreck

  attempt to drop anchor using longboat

  breaks up and sinks

  hull is breached

  image on reef

  impaled on reef

  location

  mainmast felled

  Max Cramer locates

  mizzen mast breaks

  modern search for

  port side bursts open

  reconnoitre islands

  retrieval of money chests

  runs aground on reef

  soundings taken

  survivors ferried to Abrolhos Islands

  survivors on board

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  alcohol

  Batavia survivors

  Batavia’s longboat

  Broad Council

  Cornelis the Fat Trumpeter

  death by thirst

  food sources

  Jacobsz ferries people to

  Jeronimus bans religious services

  Jeronimus demands death penalty

  Jeronimus dismisses council

  Jeronimus disperses survivors

  Jeronimus forms guard

  Jeronimus impounds weapons

  Jeronimus orders murder of Ryckert Woutersz

  Jeronimus orders murder of sick people

  Jeronimus orders murder of Traitors’ Island survivors

  Jeronimus taken prisoner on Hayes’s Island

  Jeronimus takes control

  Jeronimus washes up on

  location

  Mutineers

  Mutineers interrogated

  Mutineers rounded up

  Mutineers, survivors join

  Mutineers, survivors terrified of

  Mutineers, Wouter Loos elected leader of

  mutton birding

  now Beacon Island

  Pelsaert attempts to land

  Pelsaert returns on Sardam

  Pelsaert’s message to survivors

  population

  rainwater

  shelters

  smoke signals from High Islands

  soldiers

  stores from wreck

  VOC council

  women

  women for common service

  yawls built on island

  Batavia’s longboat

  Dirk Hartog Island

  encounters natives

  encounters Yinggarda

  Jacobsz calculates position

  Jacop Remmessens river

  landings on het Zuidland

  Mutineers on

  Nusa Kambangan Island

  Pelsaert

  sails for Batavia

  sails up Western Australian coast

  sights small fires

  sights smoke

  Sunda Strait

  supplies thrown overboard

  yawl cut adrift from

  Batavians (Germanic tribe)

  Bates, Daisy

  Beacon Island (see also Batavia’s Graveyard)

  Beagle, HMS

  Beer, Mattys

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Broad Council

  buries Stoffel Stoffelsz

  executed on Seals’ Island

  murders Cornelis Aldersz Schagen

  murders Frans Jansz

  murders Predikant’s family

  murders Seals’ Island survivors

  sentencing

  taunts Predikant

  Zussie Fredericxs

  Bosschieter, Hans

  Bosschieters, Anneken

  Boudaen, Gaspar

  British East India Company

  Broadhurst, Florance

  Brouwer, Hendrick

  Bugis

  Buren

  Cape of Good Hope

  Cardoes, Mayken

  Carpentier, General Pieter

  Carstenz, Jan

  Celebes

  Charles I, King of England

  cinnamon

  citadel of Batavia (see also Batavia (Java))

  Claas, Wybrecht

  Claasz, Marten

  cloves

  Cnijf, Maria

  Coen, Jan Pieterszoon

  Ariaen Jacobsz

  death

  Governor of Dutch East Indies

  Pelsaert

  Sultan of Mataram attacks Batavia

  Columbus, Christopher

  common-service women

  Compaen, Claas

  Company, the see VOC

  Constantine the Great

  Cornelis the Fat Trumpeter see Pietersz, Cornelis of Bolswart

  Cornelisz, Daniel

  Cornelisz, Jan of Amersvoort

  Cornelisz, Jeronimus see Jeronimus Cornelisz

  Council of the Indies

  Cramer, Graham

  Cramer, Max

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cuick, Jacob Cornelisz


  Darwin, Charles

  Decker, Rogier

  Denys, Hendrick

  Deschamps, Salomon

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Broad Council

  hanged in Batavia

  Jeronimus Cornelisz

  joins Mutineers

  murders Mayken Cardoes’s baby

  sentenced and punished

  Tafelbaai, records supplies at

  Diemen, Antonie van

  Dircxsz, Warner

  Dommelen, Jan Adolph van

  Dordrecht

  Drake-Brockman, Henrietta

  Drosche, Conrat

  Dutch Batavian Republic

  Dutch East India Company see VOC

  Dutch East Indies

  Council of the Indies

  currency

  Dutch Batavian Republic

  Dutch immigrants to

  headquarters

  local women

  native insurrections

  tropical diseases

  Dutch Mennonites

  Dutch Republic

  Amsterdam

  cartographers

  Cromwell

  persecution of Rosicrucians

  powers granted to VOC

  Texel

  trade with Spice Islands

  Walcheren Island

  Zuyder Zee

  Duyfken

  East High Island

  East Indies Council

  Edwards, Hugh

  Eendracht

  Egbertsz, Jan

  Ende, Passchier van den

  Evertsz, Jan (bosun)

  arrested for assault on Lucretia Jans

  assault on Lucretia Jans

  Batavia

  Batavia, publicly hanged in

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Batavia’s longboat

  Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile

  Fransz, Gillis

  Frederick Hendrick

  Fredericxs, Tryntgien (wife of Claas Jansz)

  Fredericxs, Zussie

  Fredericxsz, Rutger

  Galiasse

  Gerritsz, Abraham

  Gerritsz, Claas

  Batavia

  Batavia’s longboat

  Sardam

  Gerritsz, Lucas

  Goss Island

  Gravenhage

  Great Cabin

  Great Cameo of Gaspar Boudaen

  Gregory, Augustus

  Groenewaldt, Jacop

  Hammond, Maurie

  Hardens, Anneken

  Hardens, Hans

  Hardens, Hilletje

  Harmansz, Claas of Maagdenburgh

  Harmensz, Claas of Campen

  Hartog, Dirk

  Hayes, Wiebbe (see also Hayes’s Island)

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  High Islands

  Jeronimus Cornelisz

  Pelsaert

  Predikant negotiates with

  rescue-yacht plan

  rewarded by Broad Council

  rewarded by VOC

  Sardam

  Hayes’s Island

  Defenders’ weapons

  forts

  French soldiers

  Jeronimus negotiates deal with Defenders

  Jeronimus taken prisoner by Defenders

  Jeronimus takes Mutineers to

  landing sites

  location

  Mutineers’ attack led by Wouter Loos

  Mutineers’ first attack

  Mutineers killed by Defenders

  Mutineers’ second attack

  named after Wiebbe Hayes

  Pelsaert

  preparations to defend

  Seals’ Island survivors wash up on

  smoke signals sent

  soldiers on

  water and food

  Hendricxsz, Abraham

  Hendricxsz, Jacob

  Hendricxsz, Jan

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Broad Council

  executed on Seals’ Island

  Mayken Cardoes’s baby

  murders Andries de Vries

  murders Anneken Hardens

  murders Hendrick Denys

  murders Hilletje Hardens

  murders Jan Pinten

  murders Passchier van den Ende

  murders Predikant’s family

  murders Seals’ Island survivors

  murders Stoffel Stoffelsz

  murders Traitors’ Island survivors

  Pelsaert interrogates

  Sardam, imprisoned on

  sentencing

  Zussie Fredericxs

  Hendricxsz, Reynder

  Hendrix, Zwaantje

  Ariaen Jacobsz

  Batavia’s longboat

  Lucretia Jans

  het Zuidland see Western Australia

  Hiddins, Les

  High Islands

  soldiers on

  Hollandia

  Holloch, Jacop

  Hottentots

  Houtman, Cornelis de

  Houtman, Captain-General

  Frederick de

  Houtman Abrolhos Islands (see also Batavia’s Graveyard; East High Island; Hayes’s Island; High Islands; Seals’ Island; Traitors’ Island)

  Batavia runs aground

  Batavia survivors

  Batavia wreck

  guano deposits

  location

  naming by de Houtman

  Pelsaert Group

  wallabies

  Huyssen, Coenraat van

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Broad Council

  Hayes’s Island

  Hayes’s Island, attack on

  Hayes’s Island, killed on

  invites Predikant to dinner

  Judick (Predikant’s daughter)

  murders Seals’ Island survivors

  murders Traitors’ Island survivors

  takes de Vries to murder sick people

  India

  Indian Ocean

  Indonesia, Republic of

  Jacatra see Batavia (Java)

  Jacobsz, Ariaen (skipper Batavia)

  alters course to lose fleet

  Batavia, arrested for loss of

  Batavia, skipper

  on Batavia’s longboat

  character

  fate

  fells the mainmast

  ferries passengers and crew to islands

  horse-thief game

  on Houtman Abrolhos Islands

  Jeronimus Cornelisz

  Jeronimus, plots mutiny with

  latitude and longitude calculations

  Lucretia Jans

  Pelsaert

  Pelsaert blames for disaster

  Pelsaert places on final warning

  reconnoitres in yawl

  sighting of reef

  VOC orders

  Zwaantje Hendrix

  Jacobsz, Corporal Gabriel

  Jacobsz, Hans

  Jacobsz, Jacob (skipper Sardam)

  Jacop Remmessens river

  Jahangir, Mogul Prince

  Jans, Lucretia see Lucretia

  Jans van der Mijlen

  Jansz, Allert of Assendfelt

  attempts to murder Aris Jansz

  Batavia

  Broad Council

  executed on Seals’ Island

  murders Jan Pinten

  sentencing

  Jansz, Aris (surgeon)

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  escapes to Hayes’s Island

  Jeronimus orders murder of

  testimony to Broad Council

  Jansz, Bessel

  Jansz, Claas (upper-trumpeter)

  Jansz, Cornelis (‘Little Bean’, Mutineer)

  Jansz, Mr Frans (surgeon) attack on Hayes’s Island

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  Jeronimus orders murder of

  joins Mutineers

  ordered to murder Seals’ Island s
urvivors

  Jansz, Hendrick

  Jansz, Pieter (provost)

  Batavia

  Batavia’s Graveyard

  High Islands, smoke signals from

  Jeronimus orders murder of

  Traitors’ Island

  Traitors’ Island, sets off in rafts from

  Jansz, Admiral Willem

  Janszoon, Cornelis (VOC assistant)

  Japanese mercenary samurai

  Jellisz, Lucas

  Jeronimus Cornelisz

  apothecary

  career with VOC

  Rosicrucianism

  Jeronimus Cornelisz: Batavia

  horse-thief game

  Ariaen Jacobsz

  Ariaen Jacobsz, plots mutiny with

  lashes himself to bowsprit

  Lucretia Jans

  Pelsaert

  Rogier Decker

  survivor on board

  Tafelbaai, records supplies at

  Jeronimus Cornelisz: Batavia’s Graveyard

  attire on

  bans religious services

  demands death penalty

  dismisses council

  disperses survivors

  Frans Jansz

  High Islands, smoke signals from

  joins VOC council

  Kapitein-Generaal

  Lucretia Jans

  Mutineers, plans for

  Mutineers, requires to sign oaths

  Mutineers, use of

  orders murder of Anneken Hardens

  orders murder of Batavia’s Graveyard survivors

  orders murder of Cornelis Aldersz Schagen

  orders murder of Frans Jansz

  orders murder of Hendrick Jansz

  orders murder of Hilletje Hardens

  orders murder of Jacob Hendricxsz

  orders murder of Jan Pinten

  orders murder of Mayken Cardoes’s baby

  orders murder of Predikant’s family

  orders murder of Ryckert Woutersz

  orders murder of Seals’ Island survivors

  orders murder of sick people

  orders murder of Stoffel Stoffelsz

  orders murder of Traitors’ Island survivors

  poisons Mayken Cardoes’s baby

  takes control

  tent

  washes up on

  women for common service

  Jeronimus Cornelisz: Hayes’s Island

  negotiates with Defenders

  orders Mutineers to attack

  sends letter to French soldierson

  taken prisoner by Defenders

  takes Mutineers to

  Jeronimus Cornelisz: prisoner

  Broad Council

  executed on Seals’ Island

  hands cut off

  imprisoned on Sardam

  Lucretia Jans

  Pelsaert interrogates

  recants his confession

  requests baptism

  sentencing

  takes vial of poison

  writes letters to Rosicrucians

  Johnson, Dave

  Jonas, Andries

  Broad Council

  executed on Seals’ Island

  murders Mayken Cardoes

  murders Predikant’s family

  murders survivors on Seals’ Island

  Judick (Predikant’s daughter)

  Kleine David

  Laurentia Thomas

  Liebent, Andries

  longboat see Batavia’s longboat

 

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