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FRLONDON ARIED ER lo og 
TERE FROM SVRAT BOVND FOR 
ENGLAND AND DEPAR EE LO DIcTO 
RICHARD BLYTH CAP TARE tbo 
FENRE VNDER LOOKE 
FOR LETTERS 
1620 
VAN Rey Gir 
GASH. V. BERIVECI 
Through Mr. William Foster I am indebted to Dr. W. R. Bis- 
schop for some information regarding Martinus Sonck. He was 
‘¢ Advocaat-fiskaal ’’ (Public Prosecutor) and Extraordinary Member 
of the Council of India. He arrived in Java probably in 1619, for 
he signs a letter as a Member of Council, dated July 31, 1620. 
Subsequently he was appointed Governor of Banda on April 10, 
1621, and thence went to Amboyna in 1623 with the Governor, 
H. v. Speult. Finally he returned to Batavia, when he again took 
his seat at the Council during the end of 1623 and the beginning of 
1624, after which we hear of him no more. This information is all 
extracted from a work on the early voyages of the Dutch by de 
Jonge, ‘‘ De Opkomst van het Nederlansche Gezag in Oost Indie, et. 
ct.,” published at the Hague and at Amsterdam between 1862 and 
1880. 
The other inscription mentioned by ‘‘G. T.” is the one now pre- 
served in the General Post Office, and must have been again buried — 
until finally unearthed in 1897. 
