Diary of Paulus Gevers of his journey to Batavia and Bantam, 1776-1777

The Rotterdam Patriot Paulus Gevers (1741-1797), sets sail on the 8th of December 1776 on the ship of Captain Adrianus Frederik de Graaff, 'De Jonge Lieve', as junior merchant of the 'Kamer Amsterdam' of the Dutch East India Company. He gives an almost daily account of life on board of the ship. On the 30th of March they reach the Cape of Good Hope. On the 14th of April they leave the Cape and arrive in Batavia on the 18th of June 1777. Paulus Gevers is a member of a delegation going to Bantam for the coronation of the new Sultan. He also gives an account of this journey and of the visit (August 22nd – September 14th 1777).

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-zhy-e6p2
PID https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-htu-wry
Metadata Access https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:40192
Provenance
Creator dr Els S. van Eyck van Heslinga, Universiteit Leiden; dr Jan P. van de Voort
Publisher Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Publication Year 2010
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; DANS License; https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf
OpenAccess false
Representation
Language Dutch; Flemish
Resource Type Dataset
Format Wordperfect 5.0
Discipline History; Humanities
Spatial Coverage Atlantic Ocean, Cape of Good Hope, Den Helder, North Sea, Rotterdam; Bantam; Batavia (Jakarta, Cape of Good Hope, Indian Ocean, Java)