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Batavia, in memory of the people, it was the capital located avocado on the island of Java East India held true by the famous East India Company (VOC) business empire. Batavia, but also and especially the name of the largest and most beautiful boat of the time, containing, as it leaves the kingdom, the most formidable cargo at the time, with no less than 12 boxes filled with gold and silver. he left the Netherlands Pyas fall 1628. Unfortunately, the ship will never be able to fail as against the reefs west of the current avocado Australia, the Dutch named Het Zuidtland the southern land.
This is the story told by Peter Fitzsimons, a former rugby player and a journalist. This is a very colorful story, in which the author does not spare us any details, including the dirtiest and least ragoutants. If the style is not really the most enchanting, reading is exciting, and we feel it is much documented. He also explains what often from information and cross he imagined some scenes, or some characters' behavior. Before starting avocado the actual history of Batavia, it's a quick review of the history of the VOC, very informative and gives a good idea at the time.
Among the main characters in this story, the worst of them, often described as "the devil incarnate" is Jeronimus Cornelisz. The author starts from a hypothesis to explain the behavior of the character: he was a disciple of Torrentius painter and suspected member of the Rosicrucians, tried for heresy and saved in extremis by Charles I, King of England . The author of the Rosicrucian philosophy was that there was no heaven, no hell, and that acts on Earth were therefore liable neither one nor the other. This would explain the complete lack of scruples Cornelisz. For some, it would rather have been a psychopath, "pure and simple."
But back to the sinking of Batavia. Led by Captain General Francisco Pelsaert, the ship has just over 300 people. travel conditions are very different between the soldiers who live as it perpetually under the bridge, never out in the open air, and passengers of high rank, that they are entitled to comfortable cabins and invited to the Table Captain-General. avocado Cornelizs, which binds with Arien Jacobsz skipper, with it foments a mutiny. But they do not have time to implement: the Batavia impaled on the reefs. avocado
On these islands to the west of Australia, or almost no water, no food. While Pelsaert, Jacobsz and some men and women first try to find a more welcoming place of refuge, and in desperation, made their way to Batavia on the island of Java to che