(1) Willem de Vlamingh's logbook states that 70 to 80 soldiers went ashore. This is quite a high number, especially because originally “only” 33 soldiers were on board when they left the Netherlands and on arrival in Batavia the books still mention exactly 33 soldiers (and no deceased soldiers). So we suspect other crew members were also provided with a rifle and this is probably how Willem de Vlamingh came to such a high number of "soldiers".

(2) National Archives in The Hague: 1.04.02, inventory number 1587, pages 522 and 674.

(3) See: Journaal wegens voyagie, Gedaan op order der Hollansche Oost-Indische maatschappy in de Jaaren 1696 en 1697 door het Hoekerscheepje de Nyptang, het schip de Geelvink, en het Galjoot de Wezel, na het onbekende Zuid-land, en wyders na Batavia. (Journal due to the voyage, Done by order of the Dutch East-Indian Compagny in the years 1696 and 1697 by the Nyptang, the Geelvink, and the Galliot 't Weseltje, to the unknown Southland, and then to Batavia). We used the copy from the Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam (page 23).

(4) Thanks to Diederick Wildeman of the Scheepvaartmuseum, who taught us the word schuit was strictly reserved for a sloop at that time. A galliot - once with its sails flat on the water - could no longer get up on its own. So 't Weseltje has not capsized, but one of the sloops (with a sail) did.

(5) See ARSIP Nasional Republik Indonesia: Marginalia to the Daily Journals, file 2517, folio 222-223.

(6) See Copie consumptie reeckening van de schepen de Geelvinck, Nijptangh, 't Huijs ten Duijne, 't weseltje, Vosmaer, Isselmonde, 's Lantswelvaren, Grimmesteijn, Donckervliet, Overnes, de Crab, Meresteijn, Isselt en de Waelstroom. (Copy of consumption accounts of the ships the Geelvinck, Nijptangh, 't Huijs ten Duijne, 't Weseltje, Vosmaer, Isselmonde, 's Lantswelvaren, Grimmesteijn, Donckervliet, Overnes, the Crab, Meresteijn, Isselt and the Waelstroom) at the National Archives in The Hague. Under VOC: Transferred letters and papers, 1.04.02, inventory number: 1587, (Booklet: Batavia Page 516-545).