Matthijs Quast

)[4] The VOC officials at the eastern headquarters of Batavia on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Jakarta, Indonesia) were unimpressed and uninterested but were eventually overruled by the heeren back in the Netherlands, who ordered them to investigate.

[1] Quast was instructed to go to the area matching the Spanish and Japanese accounts by way of the Philippines and then to continue northwest from there to explore Korea and the possibilities for a Northeast Passage around Mongolia, Manchuria, and Siberia ("Tartary").

The crew decimated by illness exacerbated by poor rations and the ships beginning to fail, Quast finally abandoned his fruitless search on 25 October.

[2] Bad as things were, he directed his men to sail for Fort Zeelandia on Taiwan (now within Tainan's Anping District) rather than attempting to continue northwest.

[2] Uninhabited, remote, and without known resources or harbors, the Bonins were entirely ignored by the Dutch East India Company[6] as they had been ignored by any Spanish before them, permitting their rediscovery and colonization by the Japanese in the next century.

The c. 1604 Japanese edition of Matteo Ricci 's Kunyu Wanguo Quantu world map , which pointedly added Kinshima and Ginshima to the original in the North Pacific east of Honshu . The islands continued to appear in Japanese world maps until after the Meiji Restoration in the mid-19th century but could not be located by Quast's expedition... or anyone else after.
The circle of latitude at 37° 30′ N., the supposed location of the islands Rica de Oro and Plata according to the Dejima trader Willem Verstegen . The line crosses the Shatsky Rise and Emperor Seamounts but nothing at or near sea level .
Jan Janssonius 's 1652 map of Japan, incorporating the discoveries of Quast's journey and the discoveries and misinformation of De Vries 's