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INTRODUCTION.

replaced by another on which the inscription was copied, and the following new inscription added:

1697. den 4 den Februarij is hier aengecomen het schip de Geelvinck van Amsterdam, den commandeur schipper Williem de Vlamingh van Vlielandt: Adsistent Joan van Bremen van Coppenhage; Opperstierman Michiel Blom van Estight van Bremen.

De Hoecker de Nijptang, schipper Gerrit Collaert van Amsterdam; Adsistent Theodorus Heermans van dº.; d'opper-stierman Gerrit Gerritz van Bremen.

't Galjoot t' Weseltj'e, Gesaghelher Cornelis de Viamigh van Vlielandt; stierman Coert Gerritsz van Bremen, en van hier gezeilt met ons vloot den 12 dº. voorts het Zuijtlandt te ondersoecken en gedestineert voor Batavia.alt-text=Emblem of the Amsterdam chamber of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company): the letter A above a monogram composing VOC.

Of which the following is a translation: On the 4th of February., 1697, arrived here the ship Geelvinck, of Amsterdam: captain commandant, Wilhelm van Vlaming of Vlielandt; assistant, Jan van Bremen of Copenhagen; first pilot., Michéel Bloem van Estight of Bremen; the hooker the Nyptangh, captain Gerrit Collaert of Amsterdam; assistant, Theodorus Heermans of the same place; first pilot, Gerrit Gerritz of Bremen; then the galliot Weseltje; commander, Cornelis van Vlaming of Vlielandt; pilot, Coert Gerritzs of Bremen. Sailed from here with our fleet on the 12th, to explore the south land, and afterwards hound for Batavia.

In the account of the voyage of discovery made to the south by the corvettes, Geographe and Naturaliste,