WILLIAM KEELING AND HENDRICK JANSZ. CRAEN AN ENCOUNTER AT SEA IN 1609

References

• Purchas , S. 1925 . book 1, first part, London,. Algemeen Rijksarchief (Koloniaal archief 96059), the Hague
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• 1933 . The title of general was also used by the Dutch West India Company later for the highest authority in a fleet of some importance. The Dictionary of National Biography, xxx, pp.30 and 31, London, 1892, does not state that Keeling visited Banda in the Hector and returned to England in the same ship. It refers to his crew playing Hamlet and Richard II on board, but points out that the leaves that should contain these entries have long been missing from the manuscript in the India Office. See also Sir William Foster, England's Quest of Eastern Trade, London
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• All dates are New Style (Gregorian Calendar) unless the date is marked O.S.—(Old Style), which was ten days earlier and still used in England at the time
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• ‘Quam hij in persoon bij den admirael ende sijnen breeden raedt, sijnde een kloeck fraay man, die sijn Arabische ende Malaysche tale heel wel conde spreecken.’ (I. Commelin, Begin ende Voortgangh, II, 1644.)
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• ‘Den 16en voornoemt ginck het Engelschen jacht van Tedoore tzeyl, dat den vijant seer versterckt hadden met allen amenyssye ende 2 deinen stucken.’ (Journal of Craen, 17 and 18 Mar. 1608, K.A. 96059, State archives, the Hague.) In his letter to the Dutch factory in Bantam, dated 16 Mar. 1608, Craen writes: ‘alsoo ons int voorbij seilen naer Temate aen boort gecomen is het boot van capiteyn Middelton’. (K.A. 96061) This letter was received in Bantam (the Dutch factory) on 7 June, the Consent having arrived there on 1 June. The intelligence concerning the munition and the two small guns supplied to the Tidorese was most likely divulged by the crew of Middleton's boat lying alongside the Gelderland, while Craen was writing his letter
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• According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, XIII, 1954, Keeling discovered the Keeling or Cocos islands in 1609
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• 1617 . 205 English navigators used leagues (Norwood's mile) of 5338m.; Dutchmen a mile of 5355m. (until Snellius' calculations in. To obtain approx. in round figures the distance in nautical miles we should multiply Keeling's leagues by 2.9 and Craen's miles by 3. I cannot explain why Keeling says on p., 2 May (O.S.) that 38 Dutch miles equals 50 leagues, unless the ship from Lübeck was using the German mile of 6329 m. or the geographical mile of 7408 m., (Rouffaer-Ijzerman, XXXII of the Linschoten-Vereeniging, p. 422, note 2)
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• Craen refers presumably to the flag of the East India Company. His journal mentions on 20 Dec.:…wij kenden hem aen sijn vlaggen, was een Engelsman, die van Bantam quam
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• Craen's journal on 23 Dec. 1609:…voer ick met onsen schuyt aen den Engelsman ende daerin coemenden was het schip geheeten de Heckter ende was op generael genaempt Willem Kyelang ende was van Londen ende waren 2 coopluyden op die tot Bantam een tijt gewoent ende mijn wel bekenden ende zij waren gecoemen van den Banda, hadden wenich foyly in ende wat noten ende de resten peper tott Bantam ingenomen ende daer verstont ick meden tot mijn grooten leetwesen dat den 22en Meije van onsen volck van den Bandenese vermoort waren…ende alsoo ick alles verstaen hadden, maecken ick met den generael compangye en soo ick van boort scheyden naet goet tracktement vereerden hij mijn 3 eerschooten
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• It would be interesting to know what Purchas did delete from the manuscript. Perhaps one of the readers of this story could find this out and let us know
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• 23 Mar. 1610 . Journal of Craen,:…soo was smorgens den Engelsman wel 2 mijlen (6 zeemijlen) te loevert van ons, hoewel in den nacht het wel presemeerden door wij het vier voerden ende lyep van ons af zonder adie te nemen, met goet bequaem hantsaem weer, wij vermoeden ofF hij nae eenige eylanden wilden om fijtualie…dito aen den avont sagen wij dat hij off quam, soodat wij hem doen weer inwachten, vermoeden datier onder sijn volck een oproer is geweest ende weer gestilt was
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• On his previous voyage with the East India Company Keeling lost between Bantam and the Cape of Good Hope not less than 53 out of his crew of 63 (Diet. Nat. Biography)
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• Approx. 5600 guilders nowadays. Very likely it was a French fisherman as they were close to the French shore
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• Pugsley , N. S. E. Mr . 1610 . City Librarian of Exeter, was so kind as to inform me of the following facts concerning the seven or eight sailors who were buried after the arrival of the Gelderland in Dartmouth on 20 May. There is a note in the account of the Receiver of Dartmouth for the year Oct. 1609 to Oct. 1610: Mr Flute received for the burying of 7 flemmons…10s 6d…plus received more for one flemmon…1s. 6d. (Follows a list with names resembling phonetically the names of the sailors.) These names are bracketed together and opposite them is written: ‘these were Flemings of an East Indies shipe yt arrived to this harborowe, May 10 [O.S.],.’
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• 1970 . This letter will appear in vol. LXXI, De derde reis van de V.O.C. etc., part 2, to be published by the Linschoten-Vereeniging, Lange Voorhout 9, the Hague, in. Part 2 will also contain the Journal of Hendrick Jansz. Craen
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• Purchas, His Pilgrimes, book III, chapter 4, p. 177.
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