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The Ship DE HOND.
"De Hond" was originally an English
ship that was on the roadstead of Jacatra on January 3, 1619 (J.W.
IJzerman, Over de belegering van het fort Jacatra, Bijdr. Kon. Inst.,
deel 73, bl. 605 [J.W. IJzerman, about the siege of the fort of Jacatra,
Royal Institute part 73, pp 605]) and was conquered on July 26, 1619
by a squadron of the VOC under command of Hendrik Janszoon
on the roadstead of Patani, during which, amongst other, John Jourdain
was killed by a musket shot (General Missives January 22, 1620; The
Journal of John Jourdain, Introduction LXXII and Appendix F, and Diary
of Richard Cocks, II, 305). The following messages relate to "De
Hond" after that it was taken by the VOC:
"some ... are so leak one can hardly keep them above water
and may not be used in shallow water as namely ... Den Hond."
(General Missives January 22, 1620).
Arrives on March 17, 1620 in Jacatra (Jan Pietersz.Coen.
Published by H. T. Colenbrander, part II, 1920, pp. 663 and
665); to Ambon and Banda (General Missives May 11, 1620 and July 31,
1620): "The ship the Nieuwe Maen and de Hondt
has left his excellency [Houtman] there
[in the Mollucians]"(General Missives October 26, 1620).
"General Coen [has] .... departed June 24, from Amboijna
... leaving the jacht de Hondt in Amboijna to be doubled [meant
is to attach another layer of planks on the outside] and to be
and sent to Taliabo for sagu" (General Missive November 16,
1621).
"De Hondt became again doubled in Amboijna and is of very
little value" (General Missive November 16, 1621).
In Malaijo came on September 22, 1621 an "Instruction for
Christiaen Franszen, Upper-Merchant going
up with the ship de Hondt to Mindanao".
"the Jacht de Hondt has been in Mindanao ..... Our people
have returned from there without accomplishing something."(General
Missives September 6, 1622).
"On December 20, 1622 Francx came back
to Ternate ... Already on February 9, 1622 left Christian Francx again
with de Maan and de Hond." (Van Dijk, Neerland's
vroegste betrekkingen [Hollands earliest relations] etc. pp. 250).
... "De Maen and the de Hondt, which Sir
Houtman has sent from the Molluques [Mollucians]
to Cabo de Spirito Sancto with the order to run [=sail]
from there to the Coast of China" (General Missive September
6, 1622).
"The ships de Maen and den Hont, which Sir Houtman had
sent to Cabo Spiritu Sancto to take care of the silver ship of Nova
Spaignen, have, without having performed anything, come to the neck
[the thinner upper part] of Japan, because of old age and incompetence
laid ashore there." (General Missive February 1, 1623).
"The two ships de Maen and the de Hondt sent by Sir Houtman
to the Moluques to Cabo Spirito Sancto, thereabout having come in
shallow water, became so leak both came in big peril of sinking and
were forced to run [=sail] to Firando, where they reached well
with pumping, after that de Hondt roamed on Corea, and battled there
against 36 war-junks. The Council had the intention to send these
two ships to Pehou, but so running aground in the harbor of Coetche,
became de Maan leakier and bursted de Hondt, therefor both sold over
there."(General Missive June 20, 1623).
Leonard Camps came at the beginning of 1615 in
Japan, became Chief after the leave of Specx in
1615 and died November 21, 1623 in Hirado
( Naamlijst der in Japan
geregeerd hebbende opperhoofden [Name
list of the Chiefs in Japan] etc. Colonial Archives; See also
Daily Register of Batavia 1624 pp. 13).
According to Resolution of Hirado October 26,
1619 (Colonial Archives - Q. 434) became Camps on recommendation of
Specx his successor, since Specx's time would end in the coming year
and did not intend to stay there any longer. (See General Missives
June 24, 1618 and Missive from Batavia to Firando February 28, 1620,
Coen, volume. II, pp. 655). Camps' commission is
from June 13, 1620 (see Coen II, pp. 729). About Specx's leave from
Firando, see Diary of Richard Cocks, II, pp. 206 (October 1621). Compare
Commission Specx February 28, 1620 (Coen, II, pp. 663), The ship "De
Swaen" on which Specx left, arrived on December
2, 1621 in Batavia {General Missive December 20, 1621).
From Camps' letters of September18 and October 27, 1622 appears that
de Hond has been demolished between those
dates. - "As alsoe, in the same storme [between September
9 and 19, 1622 Julian Calendar.] the Hollanders had other a shipps
cast away in the roade of Cochie at Firando, the one called the Moone,
a shipp of 7 or 800 tonns, and the other, the Hownd, an English shipp
in tymes past" Hirado November 14, 1622 (Diary of Richard
Cocks, II, pp. 336).
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