Mauritius (1612)

[2] On the 1618 voyage, the ship was commanded by Supercargo Willem Janszoon and captained by Lenaert Jacobszoon, when they sighted North West Cape in Western Australia on 31 July 1618.

Worshipful Wise Provident Discreet Gentlemen, (Sailed 1000 miles to eastward in 38 degrees with notable success.)

The present serves only to inform you that on the 8th of June last with the ship Mauritius we passed Cape de bon esperence, with strong westerly winds, so that we deemed it inadvisable to call at any land, after which we ran a thousand miles to eastward in 38 degrees Southern Latitude, though we should have wished to go still further east.

from the south-point of Sunda at 240 miles' distance; from there (Eendrachtsland[a]) through God's grace we safely arrived before Bantam on the 22nd of August...

The Commander of the ship Mauritius, Supercargo Willem Janszoon, was captain of Duyfken in 1605–1606, when part of the Gulf of Carpentaria was mapped, during that earliest documented visit to Australia by a vessel from Europe.

Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht
Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht (detail naming Mauritius as ship used for the discovery of Willem's River) - The text on this close-up cropped image says, Willems revier, besocht by 't volck van 't Schip Mauritius in Iulius A° 1618 ("Willem's River, visited by the crew of the ship Mauritius in July 1618")
Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht (detail naming Mauritius as ship used for the discovery of Willem's River ) by Hessel Gerritsz , stating, Willems revier, besocht by 't volck van 't Schip Mauritius in Iulius A° 1618 ("Willem's River, visited by the crew of the ship Mauritius in July 1618"). This cropped image has been reoriented 90 degrees clockwise from the original chart with north at the now customary top.