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When shortly after 1585 the great voyages of the Dutch across the seas other than those around Europe had started, it soon became apparent that there was a great interest in the descriptions of these distant journeys. Books of travel were printed repeatedly, some of these, like the story of the unlucky journey of the East India master Willem Ysbrantsz. Bontekoe, becoming highly popular among the general public, whilst others aimed at providing information for the scholar or the mariner. Occasionally such writings were combined with others so as to form a series; a well-known and excellent example of these is the Begin ende Voortgangh van de Vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Commencement and Progress of the United Netherlands’ Patented East Indies Company), first published at Amsterdam in 1645. Similar publications by the de Bry brothers at Frankfort are slightly less accurate. A great number of these books of travel were translated into French, German and English.
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Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot, Paris 1802.
In the following account, the capital Roman figures refer to the number of the volume in the series of the works published by the Linschoten Society.
This new name is due to the British who connected the word Diemen, originally the name of a village in Holland, with the word “demon”, in view of the abolition of the convict system which had worked very badly there since their establishment on the island in 1828, they wished to relinquish this ominous name. However this may be, the honour of the discovery is much more due to Van Diemen and Visscher than to the rough sailor Tasman.
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Coolhaas, W.P. (1960). Books of Travel. In: A Critical Survey of Studies on Dutch Colonial History. Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-8786-2_4
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