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archive access 1.04.02, inventory number 7610, page 16

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In Batavia Castle in December 1645, several trading activities took place:
  • A junk from Taijouan arrived with 181 men, bringing letters from Bantam, including a cargo of 12 koyang of salt, sugar, and other small items
  • A Chinese junk commanded by Sjangsou (also known as Ian Soetecaen) arrived from Taijouan with 160 men, carrying Chinese goods and letters from the president and council of Formosa island
  • From Macassar, Intchee Boeroeck arrived with a vessel carrying:
    • 20 men
    • 10 bahars of pepper
    • 1 bahar of sandalwood
    • 10 Ceramese slaves (both men and women)
  • The Governor General received a letter from their Bantam representative reporting that an English yacht called the Advise had arrived at Bantam from the Coromandel Coast with 50 packages of various cloths. Two more English vessels were expected within two months.

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Decemb=r 1645: Jnt Casteel Battavia
jonck uijt taijouan
Brieven van
Bantam
een gilloen met 181 man aenbrengende. 12: cojangh
zout perthije bossuijcker, ende andere snuijsteringh
keeren daer en tegen wederom, thuijs, acht andere
vaertuijgen ende nemen in retour 928½: R=a
aencleeden, ende 12½ pr contant mede —
18: d=o verschijnt uijt Taeijoian de Joncke vande —
ele
Chinees sjangsou alias Ian soetecaen, op hebbende —
160: man ene geladen met grove Chinese waeren
met brieven vanden president ende raedt des
Eijlants formosa. waer van in taijouanse verbael
mentie gemaeckt werdt,
van Macassar Comt Intchee boeroeck, met een
lannangh met 20: man geladen met 10: bharen
peper, een bhaer sandelhout neffens 10: stucx
Ceranise Slaven, ende slavinnen —
Dato ontfanght d' Ed: heer gouverneur Generael
weder van onsen bantamschen resident een
brieffken waer bij verhaelt dat terwijle
alhier op Battavia. zij geweest, vande Cust
Cormandel, voor bantam is Comen 't arriveren
t engelse Jacht d'advijse, met een cargo van
50: packen diversche Cleeden. E. ende stonden
binnen den tijt van twee maenden noch
twee andere navetten van daer te voegen
naer goede Engelse bieren hadde aller
weegen
ƒ
ver
van

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Source citation

National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 1.04.02, Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811), inventory number 7610, Kamer Zeeland, INGEKOMEN STUKKEN VAN GOUVERNEUR-GENERAAL EN RADEN BIJ DE HEREN XVII EN DE KAMER ZEELAND, Kopie-dagregisters van Batavia, Kopie-dagregisters, gehouden in het kasteel Batavia, 1647 dec. 1 - 1648 dec. 31



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