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Notes . The author is indebted to Menno Leenstra for his assistance and determination to ‘collect’ ships and trips . For instance, the vessel Nieuwicheyt (ID:, see section .) listed by the VOC as multiple vessel types, i.e. roeychaloup, opgeboeide sloup, chaloup, jacht, adviesjacht. . This description applies for this specific study of the shipping in Asia. The whole database also con- tains destinations, areas and regions outside Asia. . In order to follow the ongoing sailing history of a certain vessel, the periods of stay at destinations have also been included as a separate record within the database. . Not all the arrival and departure dates were accurately documented in the various VOC records. For instance, there might be information on the departure of a ship but not on its arrival. In such cases, the ship is then still listed in the database for a given journey but a ‘true and false’ indicator prevents the data polluting research on more detailed issues such as average sailing time between destinations. . Initially this distribution formula was based on the building and the equipping of the ships. This would have served the purpose if every ship returned to its specific Chamber. Problems with this system arose when ships returned to other ports or stayed in Asia. . The goods also included the capturing of enemy ships sanctioned as a legitimate activity, as in the expeditions of Van Noort and Spilbergen. . During the ‘tweede schipvaart’ men were left behind at Banda and six at Tidore. In there were men at Ambon. In , some men were left by Pieter Both of the ´Nieuwe Brabantsche Compag- nie´. Van Heemskerck left six men behind at Bantam for the ´Oude Compagnie van Verre´. Men were also left behind at other places such as Patani, Atjeh, Surat and Grissee. . The decision to replace Reael with Coen had already been taken in the Netherlands in . This news was brought to Java in but Coen could not inform Reael who was on the Spice Islands until the beginning of . When Coen arrived at the Spice Islands early , then the formal conveyancing took place (Colenbrander , p. ). . For instance all the vessels researched for the Galle Harbour Project -: Avondster (ID:), the Her- cules (ID:) and the Dolfijn (ID:) served in this blockade. . :(ID:&),:(ID:):(ID:),(ID:). . Hongis were annual inspections in the region. VOC officials landed at various locations to discuss a variety of issues with the local ruler. On this occasion the spices growing wild were destroyed (Jacobs : ). . The VOC could take over a flourishing trade that was earlier organized by Japanese traders. (Tarling , p. ): ‘Between and more then Japanese ships went overseas under the Red Seal permit system. They called into approximately nineteen ports, including Vietnam, Cambodia, the islands in the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, and Luzon in the Philippines. A measure of the impor- tance of this Japanese trade was their export of silver. Between an an estimated ,- , kilograms of silver was sold, amounting to - per cent of the total world output outside Japan’. . Van Goens Sr. was active in various functions in the region from . He was Governor in -, and then again -. . ‘slandts indicates that this was a man-of-war sent out by the Netherlands Admiralty. In the so- called Nassausche fleet was sent to Asia around South America by the government of the Nether- lands. . Wrecked near Mauritius in : Banda (ID:, left Netherlands ), Gelderland (ID:, left Nether- lands ) and Geunieerde Provintien (ID:, left Netherlands ). . De schepen Peerl (ID:) en princesse Royale (ID:) voorn- werden bevonden seer swacke pericu- leuse Schepen te sijn, veroorsaeckt door haer grote lenghte ende ondiepte ofte vlackte, waer doorse
