Willem Bontekoe

Bontekoe van Hoorn, begrijpende veel wonderlijcke en gevaerlijcke saecken hem daer in wedervaren ("Journal or memorable description of the East Indian voyage of Willem Bontekoe from Hoorn, including many remarkable and dangerous things that happened to him there").

Ten years later, in 1617, the ship was taken by Barbary pirates and Bontekoe ended up at a slave market.

After a grueling journey, including an attack by hostile natives on Sumatra, they reached Batavia on Java.

Deutel had molded Bontekoe's journal into a highly fashionable form that combined adventure, disaster, and religion to make a book with educational and literary appeal.

Sometimes there was relief by being able to catch birds and flying fish, and by rain supplying drinking water.

The hunger became so severe again that the crew decided to kill the ship boys; Bontekoe writes that he was against that, and that they agreed that they would wait three more days.

Just in time, 13 days after the ship wreck, they reached land where they could eat coconuts.

In the end, 55 survivors reached Batavia, after encountering a Dutch fleet of 23 ships near Java under the command of Frederik de Houtman, which saved them from going to the now-hostile Bantam.

[1] The first part of the journal became the basis of a very popular children's book by author Johan Fabricius, De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe (1924), in which four teenage boys in the crew play the central roles.