Batavia (62 page)

An array of seventeenth-century Dutch weaponry – musket, pike and dagger
(Rijksmuseum)
and morning star
(Photolibrary)
– the likes of which Jeronimus’s men used to murder the innocent.

A soldier without a musket is effectively no soldier at all. (Note the U-shaped musket rest, used to support the gun when fired at shoulder height.)
(Photolibrary)

The first and largest massacre on Seals’ Island, where Jeronimus’s ‘tidying up’ led to the cold-blooded murder of over 40 innocent Survivors – from
Ongeluckige Voyagie, Van’t Schip Batavia
.
(Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales)

One of the Defenders’ limestone forts strategically located above the Mutineers’ landing site.
(Newspix/Andy Tyndall)

Row faster! From two directions, the boats of Hayes and Stonecutter race towards the rescue ship the
Sardam
, which was alerted to the Survivors’ location by plumes of smoke rising from Hayes’s Island – from
Ongeluckige Voyagie, Van’t Schip Batavia
.
(Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales)

Execution day on Seals’ Island (from
Ongeluckige Voyagie, Van’t Schip Batavia
): Jan Hendricxsz prepares to have his right hand removed before climbing the gallows and being hanged alongside six of his fellow Mutineers (top). Pelsaert and his council do not hesitate in applying torture to obtain ‘free and willing’ confessions from the very worst of the Mutineers (bottom).
(National Library of Australia, nla.aus-vn2323054)

On Beacon Island in 1999, six bodies were unearthed from just the one pit by the Western Australian Museum – Maritime.
(Western Australian Museum)

The workboat
Henrietta
raising one of the massive stern timbers from the wreck of the Batavia.
(Western Australian Museum)

Part of the excavated timber structure of the
Batavia
at Morning Reef.
(Western Australian Museum)

This pre-1629
Rijksdaalder
coin is one of several thousand objects recovered from the wreck of the
Batavia
.
(Australian National Maritime Museum)