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	theage.com.au - The Age -
		Water was scarce and Francisco Pelsaert, the commander and highest authority on board, reluctantly departed with the skipper in a small boat, initially to search for fresh water.
		Pelsaert reprieved two mutineers from the gallows and they were marooned instead on the coast of Western Australia.
		The tone that surfaces in Pelsaert's journals is urbane and world-weary, written by a man isolated by his authoritative position, wracked with malaria, and having to face up to the knowledge that in his absence hideous crimes had been committed.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/02/19/1013132441949.html (831 words)

	Shipwrecks » Batavia
		The impact threw Commander Francisco Pelsaert from his bed and soon the other 315 men, women and children on board were in a state of panic.
		Pelsaert and 47 others, including all the senior officers, headed off in the sloop to find water and to ultimately seek help from the port of Batavia, some 1,200 nautical miles away.
		With Pelsaert and the disgraced skipper, Adriaen Jacobsz, both gone, Jeronimus Cornelisz, who was responsible for the ship's cargo, began to hatch a variation on the mutinous plan that had been brewing in his mind since before the Batavia came to grief.
	www.abc.net.au /backyard/shipwrecks/wa/batavia.htm (796 words)

	VOC ship Batavia
		The commander of the ship, Francisco Pelsaert, together with all the senior officers, a few crew members and some passengers, left the wreck site in search of water, leaving behind 268 people still alive on the wreck.
		This journey took 33 days, and after the arrival in Batavia, Pelsaert was sent back to rescue the survivors that were still on the wreck.
		Commander Pelsaert died in the following year, leaving behind his journal of the events.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vo/VOC_ship_Batavia.html (345 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - From the sea
		Pelsaert discovered all that had gone on in his absence, and was horrified.
		Pelsaert's solution was to commute their death sentences and instead maroon the two "young boys" - Pelgrom was 18 and Loos in his mid-20s - on the mainland.
		Nothing concrete is known about them after Pelsaert sailed away from the beach, there is no unequivocal record of their existence from that point on.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /specialseries/aus400special/ausnl060130 (1232 words)

	Extract from Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
		But even these privileged people could not take an invitation to the merchant’s table entirely for granted, and there was another well-stocked table in the passenger accommodation at the stern to which they might occasionally be relegated and where the likes of the predikant’s children and the less favoured merchants and officers ate.
		Pelsaert had no interest in slaves, and was interested only in revictualling his ship, but, to general surprise, the Batavia did make one addition to her crew in the port.
		Pelsaert, who had been forced to transfer several of his own men to other ships in the flotilla at the beginning of the voyage, agreed to allow the boy to work his passage to the Indies on board the Batavia.
	www.mikedash.com /batavia_extract.htm (4100 words)

	Shipwrecks Audio Transcript » SHIP OF HORRORS
		With Pelsaert and 47 others, including all the senior officers, now out of the way, having headed off in the sloop to find water and to ultimately seek help from the port of Batavia, this left 268 castaways.
		PELSAERT: Jan Hendrycks confesses that one day he had been called by Jeronimus into his tent and that he gave him to know that at night time he must help him with the murder of the Predikant's family.
		So the portico, the armaments, Pelsaert's silver, which again is linked back into the Mogul stories, and then of course the massacres that occurred and the work that we've been doing both on the grave sites and the forensic evidence of trying to identify who the people were.
	www.abc.net.au /backyard/shipwrecks/wa/transcript_batavia.htm (1261 words)

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		Gijsbert Bastiaensz's letter to his family and friends in Holland told a personal tale of tragedy; the murders of his wife and all their children except his eldest daughter Judith who was forced to become the concubine of a mutineer.
		All the elements she has extrapolated on are evident in Pelsaert's original journals and evidence taken at the trials of the mutineers.
		Pelsaert's journal makes a fascinating reference to two letters written by Cornelisz that were intercepted before they could reach Holland and it is tempting to speculate on the perspective that they might have brought to bear on the story.
	www.api-network.com /cgi-bin/reviews/print.cgi?n=0330362208 (830 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Tale of the 'Batavia' - Waiting in Turn to Die
		Pelsaert's disgust and anger are plain enough, and Jeronimus fans them as much as he dares.
		Pelsaert is soon aboard a yacht, the Sardam, with a crew of 40, with ringing orders to salvage the treasure.
		Pelsaert is too weak to make this heretic recant, and almost seems to fear the twisted logic of his prisoner.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A1037693 (5021 words)

	Treasures of the Battye Library - Pelsaert Journal
		Francisco Pelsaert was born c1590 in Antwerp, Belgium and entered the East India Company's service in 1618.
		Pelsaert set sail in a ship's boat for Batavia (now Djakarta, Indonesia) and returned in the Sardam to rescue the survivors, arriving mid September.
		Pelsaert restored law and order and had the ringleaders of the mutiny tried.
	www.liswa.wa.gov.au /treasures/pelsaert/index.htm (229 words)

	Batavia
		The unfortunate woman was able to identify one of her attackers, Jan Evertz, by his voice and Pelsaert intended to have the man hanged as soon as they sighted the coast of the "Unknown land".
		Pelsaert did not realise that an attempt to punish Evertz was to be the signal for the mutiny to begin.
		It is known that Pelsaert recovered eight of the ten chests that the BATAVIA carried, the Museum has recovered about 7.700 coins 80% of which are in poor condition and represent the main contents of the missing two chests.
	www.vocshipwrecks.nl /out_voyages2/batavia.html (3533 words)

	Sep 26, 2003
		The shipwreck was a prelude to an extraordinary tragedy.
		Commander Francisco Pelsaert, all the senior officers, some crew and passengers, 48 in all, deserted 268 people, on the wreck and on two waterless islands, whilst they went in search of water.
		The Governor General dispatched Pelsaert in the jacht Sardam to rescue the survivors.
	www.funnytheworld.com /2003/Australia/0926.htm (891 words)

	BATAVIA
		Pelsaert, livid, threatens once again to place Jacobsz on report - and the resentful Skipper, for his part, begins to hatch a mutinous plot : a plan to seize the ship and its treasure, throw Pelsaert to the sharks, and to take to a life of piracy.
		This is done to provoke Pelsaert into taking disciplinary action, which in turn is to be the signal to mutiny - and the conspirators, mostly Jacobsz' own crewmen, are sleeping with their weapons at the ready.
		Water is desperately short on the islands, and those in the boats, including Jacobsz, Pelsaert and most of the VOC officers, seize the chance to head for Java.
	www.ozzigami.com.au /batavia (1341 words)

	Treasures : Item : Francisco Pelsaert’s unlucky voyage (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Francisco Pelsaert (c.1591–1630)Ongeluckige Voyagie, van’t schip Batavia, nae de Oost-Indien (The unlucky voyage of the Batavia)
		Leaving the rest on two deserted coral islands, Pelsaert and 47 others set off in two of the ship’s boats to organise a rescue.
		When Pelsaert returned from Batavia 96 days later, over 100 people had been murdered or had died of disease.
	nationaltreasures.nla.gov.au.cob-web.org:8888 /index/Treasures/item/nla.int-ex9-s1 (228 words)

	Borders - Feature - Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
		The upper-merchant, who was called Francisco Pelsaert, was in many respects Jacobsz's opposite—not only in wealth and education, which was to be expected in this period, but in origin as well.
		For one thing, Pelsaert was no Dutchman; he came from Antwerp in the Southern Netherlands, the great rival of Amsterdam.
		Moreover, he had been born into a Catholic family at a time when the VOC required its officers to be Protestant; he lacked Jacobsz's powers of leadership; and despite long service in the Indies, he was as indecisive as the skipper was self-confident.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=bataviasgraveyard (1913 words)

	Events - Western Australia - Australia on the Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Commanded by Merchant Commodore Francisco Pelsaert, the newly launched Batavia was the pride of the VOC fleet and had approximately 330 people aboard.
		A small band of Pelsaert’s loyal soldiers, led by Wiebbe Hayes, were sent in search of water by Cornelisz, who expected them to perish while he and his followers began an orgy of torture, rape and murder.
		rancisco Pelsaert’s epic voyage was a testament to courage and endurance.
	www.australiaonthemap.org.au /wa/waevents/Geraldton.html (551 words)

	Amazon.ca: Voyage to Disaster: Books: Henrietta Drake-Brockman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Voyage to Disaster presents the fruits of that research: the first complete English language translation of Francisco Pelsaert's journals (the orginals are in the main Dutch staste archive at The Hague), with supporting material from repositories in Amsterdam and Leiden.
		The tale of Francisco Pelsaert's incredible survival through adversity where mutiny and massacre would be the rule of the day is high drama.
		Ms Brockman became the leading investigator in solving the whereabouts of this lost and infamous shipwreck off the coast of West Australia.Her information is gleaned primarily from eyewitness accounts and the diary of Pelsaert to conclude a fascinating chapter seafaring history.
	www.amazon.ca /Voyage-Disaster-Henrietta-Drake-Brockman/dp/1920694722 (577 words)

	Welcome Aboard the Batavia! quiz -- free game
		In command of the Batavia was upper-merchant Francisco Pelsaert.
		By then the relation between Pelsaert and Jacobsz had gotten worse, because both men were after the same woman, Lucretia Jansz (also called Lady Lucretia van der Meylen).
		The absence of Pelsaert and Jacobsz made Cornelisz the most senior man around, so when he sent a group of soldiers without weapons to nearby High Island to "search for water" they obeyed.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=177974 (837 words)

	The Netherlands and Australia - Ships' Log: The Batavia
		The Commander, Francisco Pelsaert, is aboard our vessel and our crew and passengers make up 300 souls.
		Pelsaert immediately ordered the crew to jettison the cannon and launch the shallops and skiffs.
		Hayes and his men were able to warn our rescuers of the mutiny and murders and Captain Pelsaert has already sentenced seven men to hang at Batavia's Graveyard.
	www.kidsmedia.com.au /netherlands/ships-log-batavia.html (878 words)

	Willem Janszoon Summary
		In October 1628 Francisco Pelsaert sailed the Batavia from Texel, on the northwestern coast of the Netherlands, to the Dutch East Indies.
		While Pelsaert explored the shore for water and food, some of his crew mutinied.
		Pelsaert punished the instigators and after returning to Europe, wrote about his ordeal.
	www.bookrags.com /Willem_Janszoon (2740 words)

	Batavia Model Ships: Large Ships & other model boats, model yachts and sailboats from Model Ships, suppliers of high ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Batavia sailed from the Texel in a fleet of eleven ships on October 29, 1628, the captain was Adriaen Jacobsz, but the overall commander was Fleet President Francisco Pelsaert.
		Jacobsz underestimated his ship's progress, and in the middle of the night on June 4, 1629, Batavia ran aground on what Pelsaert described as "the perilous shallows of the Abrolhos, otherwise called by the Dutch the Frederick Houtmann's rocks"—about 28°57N, 114°10E.
		Two days later, Pelsaert set out to look for water with two of the ship's boats, the smaller of which was lost on the mainland 40 miles away.
	www.model-ships.co.uk /index.php/fuseaction/shop.product/productid/228 (753 words)

	'Batavia's Graveyard' goes beyond mutiny - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		After the Batavia foundered, its captain, some seamen and Francisco Pelsaert, the senior surviving representative of the Dutch East India Company, sailed by longboat to seek rescue in the town of Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia), 1,800 miles away.
		When Pelsaert learned about the murders, he tried and executed the mutineers.
		He describes how Pelsaert salvaged much of the cargo, and he traces the further lives of many of the story's participants.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_73983.html (403 words)

	Welcome Aboard the Batavia! - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
		The upper-merchant, or 'opperkoopman', as he was called in Dutch, was the highest in rank on a VOC ship and in charge of the cargo and the trade.
		On 7th July Pelsaert and his group reached Batavia, where Jacobsz was arrested for negligence.
		Despite all of Pelsaert's efforts to recover the Batavia's treasures (he managed to save eight of the ten chests of silver), all of his possessions were confiscated and Pelsaert died less than a year later.
	www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Welcome-Aboard-the-Batavia-177974.html (1542 words)

	Bataviawerf * National Centre for Maritime History
		The present Batavia was named after a historic predecessor which was built in 1628 in Amsterdam by order of the VOC, the Dutch United East India Company.
		On her maiden voyage, under the command of Francisco Pelsaert, she was wrecked on a reef off the Australian westcoast.
		With a similar vessel Commander Pelsaert must have sailed the 3000 miles from West-Australia to Java.
	www.bataviawerf.nl /en/batavia_geschiedenis.html (493 words)

	Houtman Abrolhos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1629 and 1630 some of the islands were the scene of a spectacular shipwreck and mutiny.
		The Dutch ship Batavia under the command of Francisco Pelsaert ran aground and Pelsaert and some men went in an open boat to the town of Batavia (now Jakarta) in order to get help.
		When Pelsaert came back many culprits were executed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Houtman_Abrolhos (427 words)

	VOYAGE TO DISASTER. The Life of Francisco Pelsaert covering his Indian report to the Dutch East India Company and the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Life of Francisco Pelsaert covering his Indian report to the Dutch East India Company and the wreck of the ship Batavia in 1629 off the coast of Western Australia together with the full text of his Journals concerning the - DRAKE-BROCKMAN, HENRIETTA:
		The Life of Francisco Pelsaert covering his Indian report to the Dutch East India Company and the wreck of the ship Batavia in 1629 off the coast of Western Australia together with the full text of his Journals concerning the
		Rescue Voyages, the mutiny on the Abrolhos Islands and the subsequent trial of the Mutineers.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/srd/59737.shtml (150 words)

	Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List: P
		VITA: Pelsaert and the Wreck and Mutiny of the
		University of Calgary: The conquest of the Inca empire: Francisco Pizarro
		Americas-fr: Francisco Pizarro, Conquistador du Pérou (in French)
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/alpha/p.html (1466 words)

	Rambles: Mike Dash, Batavia's Graveyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Following the shipwreck, Dash jumps back in time and furnishes all the background needed to become conversant with the social, political, economic and religious matters of the day.
		He introduces us to Ariaen Jacobsz, the skipper, and Francisco Pelsaert, the upper-merchant who represented company interests and was the skipper's immediate superior, as well as the various soldiers, sailors and passengers who would play a role in the coming drama.
		He explains the growth of the spice trade and the reasons for the Dutch dominence of the global market.
	www.rambles.net /dash_batavia02.html (516 words)

	The Morning After: Performing arts in Australia: Opera Australia: Batavia by Richard Mills and Peter Goldsworthy
		The âgoodâ commander Francisco Pelsaert loses control because he fails to act.
		But Pelsaert and Cornelisz are crucially out-of-phase with one another.
		The answer, of course, is musically, which is where Bruce Martin (Pelsaert) and Michael Lewis (Cornelisz) come in.
	chrisboyd.blogspot.com /2006/08/opera-australia-batavia-by-richard.html (1047 words)

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