[24] This differs slightly in detail from the account given by Motley, whose authority is so high that it is with reluctance I do not adhere to it in every particular. In this instance I follow the Life of Boisot, as given in Leeven en Daden der Doorlughtige Zee-Helden, a quarto volume issued at Amsterdam in 1683.
[25] The treaty contained thirty articles. It is to be found on pages 83 to 88 of Volume II of A General Collection of Treatys, Manifesto’s, Contracts of Marriage, Renunciations, and other Publick Papers, from the year 1495, to the year 1712, second edition published in London in 1732.
[26] See pages 89 to 91 of the volume of Treaties, etc., already referred to.
[27] Page 92, Vol. II of the Collection of Treaties, etc., already referred to.
[28] General Collection of Treaties, etc., Vol. II, pages 103 to 119.
[29] General Collection of Treaties, etc., Vol. II, pages 120 to 127.
[30] Collection of Treaties, etc., Vol. II, pages 128 to 146.
[31] The account of these voyages is taken from Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost Indische Compagnie, vervatende de voornaemste Reysen by de Inwoonderen derselver Provincien derwaerts gedaen. Two thick volumes, published at Amsterdam in 1646.
[32] The accounts of the voyages that follow have been taken by me from the volumes Begin ende Voortgangh already mentioned, and François Valentijn’s Oud en Nieuw Oost Indien, five huge volumes published at Amsterdam in 1726, checked by the narratives in the first three volumes of J. K. J. de Jonge’s De Opkomst van het Nederlandsch Gezag in Oost Indie, published at the Hague and Amsterdam in 1862-65. I also made use of the last volume of Diogo de Couto’s Da Asia, in order to get the Portuguese version of these events, but obtained very little information in it. His work ends with an account of a Dutch disaster at Achin before the principal voyages were undertaken. Of course the Dutch were to him pirates and rebels.
[33] It is attached to the original journals, now in the archives of the Netherlands. I made a copy of it on tracing linen for the Cape government, as it differs considerably from the chart in the printed condensed journal of the voyage. In other respects also the compilation of the printed journal has been very carelessly executed.