Batavia's Graveyard - Mike Dash [217]
New arrivals For the escape of people from Batavia’s Graveyard, see JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 143].
Improvised weapons Letter of 11 Dec 1629 [R 232]; LGB, which includes the reference to “guns”; Edwards, pp. 52–4.
Hayes’s dispositions For a full discussion of the coastal shelter and its inland counterpart, see chapter 10.
Location of Hayes’s boats See the discussions in The ANCODS Colloquium, pp. 93, 100.
Allert Jansz According to OV, he was a corporal rather than a cadet. This seems less likely, as, whatever Hayes’s qualities, an experienced corporal might have been expected to command the landing party, while a young cadet would not.
Jeronimus’s plans Verdict on Jeronimus Cornelisz, JFP 28 Sep 1629 [DB 175]; Pelsaert’s “Declaration in short, [of] the origin, reason, and towards what intention, Jeronimus Cornelissen, undermerchant, has resolved to murder all the people . . . ,” JFP nd [DB 252].
“. . . by exploiting the well-known antipathy . . .” It is interesting, from this perspective, to note that when the mutineers signed their second oath of comradeship on 20 August, it included a clause that specified: “Also that the ship’s folk amongst us will not be called sailors any more, but will be reckoned on the same footing as the soldiers, under one company.” Oath of 20 August [DB 148].
Jeronimus’s letter Letter of 23 July to the French soldiers on Wiebbe Hayes’s Island [DB 148–9]. This letter was handed to Pelsaert by Hayes when the mutiny was over and was copied into the commandeur’s journals, together with the mutineers’ oaths, to form part of the evidence against Cornelisz and his men.
Cornelissen captured Verdict on Daniel Cornelissen, JFP 30 Nov 1629 [DB 240].
Attacks on Wiebbe Hayes’s island Pelsaert is inexact concerning the number and dates of these contacts. Drake-Brockman, op. cit., pp. 115–7, presents a chronology with the most likely dates. For the sources, see the commandeur’s “Declaration in Short” [DB 252–3]; verdict on Jeronimus Cornelisz, JFP 28 Sep 1629 [DB 175]. Pelsaert’s earlier account (JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 159]) of the same episodes is partial, since it was based on Jeronimus’s original statement to him, and thus emphasized the roles of Zevanck and Van Huyssen while minimizing Cornelisz’s own. The second attack coincided with the murder of Frans Jansz, from which it appears that the mutineers split their forces and for some unknown reason chose to leave at least five of their best fighting men on the High Island.
Van Huyssen and Liebent grumble JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 159]; verdict on Andries Liebent, JFP 30 Nov 1629 [DB 244].
“To come to an accord . . .” Pelsaert, “Declaration in Short” [DB 253].
Clogs LGB. When he arrived on the island (see below), the Defenders gave Bastiaensz a pair of these homemade shoes, a gesture that touched him so deeply that he wrote that he would keep them for the rest of his life.
“. . . under cover, as friends . . .” JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 142].
Bastiaensz and the treaty of peace This occurred on 1 September, during a reconnaissance. Jeronimus was also present, and, according to the predikant, “Our Merchant offered them Peace, but [tried] to deceive them.” It would appear that Cornelisz was planning some sort of surprise attack, but two musketeers, who had instructions to pick off the Defenders when they came to the beach, found that their weapons persistently misfired, and Hayes had again emerged unscathed. Ibid.
“Saying joyfully . . .” “Declaration in Short” [DB 253].
“Very skinny . . .” Letter of 11 Dec 1629 [R233].
“Deceiving them with many lies . . .” LGB. Negotiations seems to have been conducted through Gijsbert Bastiaensz, who acted as go-between. JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 142]
“Hither and thither . . .” LGB.
Capture of Cornelisz and execution of his lieutenants JFP 17 Sep 1629 [DB 159]; “Declaration in Short” [DB 253]; LGB.
Jeronimus in the pit Harderwijk MS [R 28].
Election of Wouter Loos Verdict