No. 55.-1904.] 
FRANCOIS CARON. 
31S 
FRANCOIS CARON AND THE FRENCH EAST 
INDIA COMPANY. 
By F. H. DE Vos, Barrister-at-Law, Member of the Society of 
Dutch Literature, &c., of Leyden. 
There is in the Society's Library a little book in Dutch 
which is curious reading. It is entitled — 
Historie van Oost-Indien vervattende hehalven de zeernette 
* heschryving der vergelegene landen^ een omstandig verhaal 
van het wedervaren der Franschen aldaar, 
Uit der zelver aanteekeningen overgezet en met konst- 
plaatjes vercierd. 
Te Rotterdam^ 
By Pieter van Slaart. 
MDGXGVI. 
(History of the East Indies, including, besides a very clear 
description of distant lands, a full account of the experiences 
there of the French. Translated from their notes, and 
adorned with plates. Rotterdam. (Publisher) Pieter van 
Slaart. 1696). 
The author winds up as follows : — 
" The author of these notes has collected them only to 
encourage men of greater light than he to set to work in a 
more regular and effective manner. He has had in this 
work no other aim than to cause the dangers known to him 
to be avoided and to testify his zeal for the glory of his 
Sovereign and the welfare of his country." 
The writer gives a detailed account of the doings of the 
Company, but we are only concerned with the person who 
