VOYAGE OF THE " DUYFKEN " 25 



capacity for native " trade " and stores for her crew sufficient for a 

 voyage of seven months. In the course of the voyage on which 

 she is first heard of, she probably drew supplies periodically from 

 the larger ships of the expedition. I incline, therefore, to the 

 opinion that the 6o-ton yacht was the one which Willem Janszoon 

 commanded from November, 1605, to June, 1606. 



The " Duyjken " left BANTAM for New Guinea on 28th Novem- 

 ber, 1605, and was back at BANDA ISLAND in or before June, 1606. 

 Janszoon visited KEI and ARU ISLANDS and made the coast of 

 NEW GUINEA in 5 south latitude. He then followed the land 

 south-eastward, passing TORRES STRAIT without settling the 

 question of whether or not there was a passage, although less than 

 six months later TORRES left the New Hebrides and made for the 

 strait, evidently guided by previous information. Still under the 

 impression that he was off the New Guinea coast, Janszoon kept 

 the land in sight to 13^ degrees of south latitude. Instructions 

 drawn up for the use of ABEL TASMAN in 1644 refer to the 

 " Duyjken' *s " voyage in these terms : 



" It being ascertained that vast regions were for the greater part uncultivated and 

 certain parts inhabited by savage, cruel, black barbarians, who slew some of our sailors, 

 so that no information was obtained touching the exact lie of the country or the 

 commodities obtainable or in demand there ; our men having, from want of provisions 

 and other necessaries, been compelled to return and abandon the discovery they had 

 begun, only registering in their chart, by the name of KEERWEER, the extreme point 

 of the discovered land in I3|- south latitude 1 [correctly, 13 58 ' S.]." 



JOHN SARIS, an English shipmaster, resided in Bantam for 

 five years in the capacity of factor for the English East India 

 Company, which had been established in i6oo. a He kept a diary, 

 in which the following entries obviously deal with the " Duyjken" 

 although the vessel is not named : 



" iSth Nov., 1605 [old style = 28th November, new style]. Heere departed 

 a small Pinasse of the Flemmings 8 for the discovery of the land called Nova Guinea, 

 which, it is said, affordeth great store of Gold. 



" i$th June, 1606 [old style = 25th June, new style]. Heere arrived Nockhoda 

 [*.<?., Skipper] Tingall, a Klingman from Banda, in a Java Juncke. ... He told me 

 that the Flemminga 3 Pinasse which went upon discovery for Nova Ginny was 

 returned to Banda, having found the iland ; but on sending their men on shoare to 

 intreate of Trade, there were nine of them killed by the Heathens, which are man- 

 eaters. So they were constrained to returne, finding no good to be done there." 



The States of Holland and West Friesland had given the 

 (Dutch) GENERAL UNITED EAST INDIA COMPANY certain advice 



1 Quoted by Heeres, p. 5. 



2 Observations of Captain John Saris of Occurrents which happened in the East Indies 

 during his Abode at Bantam, from October, 1605, till October, 1609, in Hakluytus Posthumus 

 or Purchas, His Pilgrimes. By Samuel Purchas, B.D., vol. iii, p. 490, of new edition. 

 Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, MCMV. 



* Heeres, translating into Dutch, substitutes " Hollandse " for " Flemmings." 



