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Index

Aboriginal communities encountered

Aboriginal communities of Shark Bay and Murchison

Aboriginal Yinggarda nation

Abreu, António de

Abrolhos Archipelago
see
Houtman Abrolhos Islands

Allen, Greg

Ambon

Amsterdam

Ariaensz, Ariaen

Assendelft

Banda Islands

Bantam (Java)

Barrentsz, Paulus

Bastiaensz, Gijsbert
see Predikant

Batavia (Java)

canals

Carpentier, General Pieter

citadel

Dutch Batavian Republic

forced labour

garrison

hub of VOC empire

Jacatra, Coen attacks

Jacatra, renamed Batavia

location

Mutineers tried by Council of Justice

public punishment

subsidiary VOC offices

Sultan of Mataram attacks

supplies

Batavia
: design

anchors

armoury

barbers

binnacle

construction

diagram of the
Batavia

dispensary

figurehead

flags of flagship

galley

gun deck

hold

‘the hole’

lanterns

liquor stores

maximum speed

orlop deck

sails

shipworm protection

water supply

weapons

windsail

Batavia
: maiden voyage

accompanying fleet of eight

alters course to lose fleet

beer ration

beginning of voyage

cabin boys

cargo (
see also
VOC money chests)

class distinctions

craftsmen

crew numbers

crew roster

crew take oath of allegiance to VOC

deaths and sea burials

depth sounding

discipline and punishment

distance and speed of voyage

family life

Great Cabin

gunners

horse-thief game

mealtimes

mercenary soldiers

officers and seamen

passengers

as pirate ship

sailors

scurvy

seafaring shanties

ship’s council

supplies

surgeon’s room

Tafelbaai

in the tropics

Walcheren Banks, goes aground on

women and children

women of adventure

Batavia
: wreck

attempt to drop anchor using longboat

breaks up and sinks

hull is breached

image on reef

impaled on reef

location

mainmast felled

Max Cramer locates

mizzen mast breaks

modern search for

port side bursts open

reconnoitre islands

retrieval of money chests

runs aground on reef

soundings taken

survivors ferried to Abrolhos Islands

survivors on board

Batavia’s Graveyard

alcohol

Batavia
survivors

Batavia
’s longboat

Broad Council

Cornelis the Fat Trumpeter

death by thirst

food sources

Jacobsz ferries people to

Jeronimus bans religious services

Jeronimus demands death penalty

Jeronimus dismisses council

Jeronimus disperses survivors

Jeronimus forms guard

Jeronimus impounds weapons

Jeronimus orders murder of Ryckert Woutersz

Jeronimus orders murder of sick people

Jeronimus orders murder of Traitors’ Island survivors

Jeronimus taken prisoner on Hayes’s Island

Jeronimus takes control

Jeronimus washes up on

location

Mutineers

Mutineers interrogated

Mutineers rounded up

Mutineers, survivors join

Mutineers, survivors terrified of