XVI.

(1624) DISCOVERY OF THE TORTELDUIF ISLAND (ROCK).

A.

_Daily Register [*] of what has happened here at Batavia from the first of January, A.D. 1627._

[* This Daily Register has been edited by me ('s Gravenhage, Nijhoff, 1896).]

...On the 21st [of June] there arrived here from the Netherlands the advice-yacht Tortelduiff...which had left the Texel...on the 16th of November, 1623...

B.

_Hessel Gerritsz Charts, 1627 [*] (Nos. 4 and 5.--VII, C, D)._

[* The situation of Tortelduif island was accordingly known as early as 1677. The voyage Of 1623-1624 is the only one made to India by the ship of that name (see LEUPE, Zuidland, p. 48). If we take for granted that this ship gave its name to the island (rock), which is highly probable, then the name must have been conferred in 1624. The note of interrogation in the text is only meant to ward off the charge of over-hasty inference on my part.]

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