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In January 1627 a voyage of singular interest was made, The Gulden 

 of which we have hardly any information. "The Daily ^fs^vers the 

 Register of what has happened here at Batavia from the 1st coast from 

 of January, 1627" has, Professor Heeres tells us, this entry : Leeuwinto 

 " On the I oth of April there arrived here from the Nether- Fowler's 

 lands the ship Gulden Seepaart, fitted out by the Zealand 

 Chamber, having on board the Hon. Peter Nuyts, Extra- 

 ordinary Councillor of India, having sailed from there 



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on the 22nd of May, 1626." " The Daily Register " 

 gives no hint that anything remarkable had happened 

 on the voyage 1 ; and no journal or letter has survived 

 to tell its story. Yet there is evidence that this ship, 

 which sailed under skipper Francois Thijssen, had made 

 discoveries of very remarkable interest. Gerritz's map 

 of 1627 ends Southward at the " Landt van de Leeuwin," 

 discovered in 1622. But there is another map by Gerritz, 1 

 which, though dated 1618, contains facts of a later date. 

 One is inclined to guess that 1618 is a printer's mistake, 

 and that the true date is 1628. And on this map the 



1 End of Heeres' Part borne by the Dutch. Cf. Keppler's map of 

 1630, above. 



