Author: HOUTMAN, Cornelis de.
Title: Om de zuid. De eerste schipvaart naar Oost-Indië onder Cornelis de Houtman, 1595-1597, opgetekend door Willem Lodewycksz. Vertaling, inleiding en annotatie Vibeke Roeper en Diederick Wildeman.
Description: (Nijmegen, SUN,1997). Wrappers. With illustrations. 247 pp.Cornelis de Houtman (1565 - 1599), brother of Frederick de Houtman, was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade. At the time, the Portuguese Empire held a monopoly on the spice trade, and the voyage was a symbolic victory for the Dutch, even though the voyage itself was a disaster. Houtman was also a spy, having worked against the Portuguese by bringing back to the Netherlands privileged nautical information obtained during his stay in Portugal.

Keywords: Dutch travel Indonesia Indonesia general VOC Dutch East India Company biography voc general