Biography of dirk hartog

Dirk Hartog , mariner, was baptized on 30 October in the Oude Kerk Old Church , Amsterdam, the Netherlands, second son and one of at least four children of Hartych Krynen, mariner, and his wife Griet Jans. They are not known to have had children.

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At a time when Dutch spellings were not standardized, his name was variously spelled, including Hartogszoon, Hartogsz, Hartoogs, Hatichs and Hertoghsz as his surname, and Dirck or Dirick as his first name. He signed his name in several extant documents as Dyrck Hartoochz. In Australian history, however, he has become known as Dirk Hartog. By Hartog had engaged on voyages to various European ports as the owner and skipper of a small trading vessel, the Dolphyn Dolphin.

It sailed from Texel on 23 January, carrying ten money chests containing 80, reals pieces-of-eight , valued at about , guilders. The weather was bitterly cold and immediately before sailing twenty-one crewmembers and eight soldiers deserted by walking ashore over sea ice. Longitude could then be estimated only very approximately, however, and it was inevitable that a V.

Hartog was the first to do so. On 25 October members of the Eendracht 's crew landed at the north end of what is now known as Cape Inscription on Dirk Hartog Island. They left a record of their visit inscribed on a flattened pewter plate, nailed to an oak post and placed upright in a fissure on the cliff top.

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The inscription on the plate may be translated as: , 25 October, is here arrived the ship the Eendracht of Amsterdam, the upper-merchant Gillis Miebais of Liege, skipper Dirck Hatichs of Amsterdam; the 27th ditto set sail again for Bantam, the under-merchant Jan Stins, the uppersteersman Pieter Dookes van Bill, Anno On 14 December the Eendracht reached Macassar Ujung Pandang , where a confrontation with local inhabitants resulted in the deaths of fifteen of its men.

Hartog then visited other trading centres in the East Indies, delivering chests of money. Still under his command, the Eendracht left Bantam Banten on 17 December , carrying a rich cargo of benzoin an aromatic wax used for medicinal purposes , silk and other goods. The ship reached Zeeland in the Netherlands on 16 October