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17th century the Netherlands became one of the world's foremost economic powers thanks to its advances in science art
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and commercial trade then known as the Dutch Republic it's wealth and power flourished through the importing of
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goods from overseas with huge ships sent to Asia and Africa to bring back textiles teas grains and spices a
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popular proverb among the Dutch during this period was Jesus Christ is good but trade is better the Dutch East India
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Company known in its homeland as the V OC was a chartered company established to coordinate trade in India and other
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countries throughout Southeast Asia monopolizing all trade to the East had boasted tens of thousands of employees
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and its own private army ships operating under its license were enormous vessels
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called East Indiaman built to carry large amounts of cargo as well as passengers and equipped with cannons and
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gunners in case pirates launched an attack due to their size and weight these ships moved slowly at an average
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speed of five knots per hour and typically took eight months to complete a voyage
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in 1628 the vo si commissioned the construction of an expensive new flagship to travel to the company's
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major trade settlement of Batavia located in what is today the city of Jakarta in Java Indonesia named after
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its destination the Batavia was a grand vessel that was built in just six months
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at the exorbitant cost of 100,000 guilders more than 4.5 million Australian dollars in today's currency
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the approximately 55 meter tall and 56 meter long ship was made of oak and featured four decks three masts and 30
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guns and had the capacity to carry 600 tons of suppliers that supper works were painted pale green with gold and red
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detailing and its figurehead a wooden carving positioned at the bow was a lion leaping upwards in late October 1628 the
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Batavia set sail from Amsterdam with a fleet of seven other ships carrying 341 people who ranged from BOC officials
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sailors and soldiers to relatively well-off passengers travelling with their families a number of the younger
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passengers were cabin boys ranging from children to adolescents who were employed on the ship to wait on others
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the Batavia was also packed with valuable cargo including stone to build factories with silverware jewels and a
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fortune in coins that would amount to almost 41 million Australian dollars in today's currency
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life on the ship was harsh perilous and unpleasant sleeping borders were cramped
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and barrels of drinking water were contaminated with worms and algae outbreaks of infectious than to
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nutritional deficiency diseases were common resulting in the deaths of ten passengers 27 year old passenger
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Lucretia yarns was traveling from her home city of Amsterdam to be reunited with her husband he was an employee of
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the V OC and had left the work in the company's Batavia settlement several years earlier shortly after his
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departure the couple's three young children all contracted a disease and died it was unusual for a merchants wife
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to follow her husband overseas but Lucretia was heartbroken and lonely she was born into wealth and occupied a
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higher social status resulting in her traveling on the batavia with a maid and having her own private cabin Lucretia
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who was regarded as exceptionally beautiful consistently rebuffed unwanted attention from a number of men
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throughout the long voyage on the evening of May 14 Lucretia was preparing to retire for the night as she made her
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way back to her sleeping quarters she was confronted by eight men wearing masks though she couldn't see their
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faces they spoke to one another and she heard their voices the masked assailants
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dragged to Lucretia to a quiet corner on the ship's deck where they reached under her skirt to
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grope her and smeared her face legs and genitals with tar and animal dung the assault was over in a matter of seconds
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[Music] [Music] [Music] word of Lucretia Yuans assault reached the Batavia Scamander upper merchant
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Francisco pelsaert who began investigating the matter upper merchants were vo C officials who were
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assigned to overall responsibility for a particular fleet their task was to ensure the voyage would be profitable
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for the company's directors second-in-command was the ship's captain followed by the upper merchants deputy
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known as the under merchant francisco pelsaert was aged in his early 30s and was a
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longtime v OC employee having already completed a seven-year posting in India despite his experience he was indecisive
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and lacked leadership skills his command on the Batavia had been difficult at times as he often clashed with the
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ship's captain Arian Yakov's aged in his mid-40s jakub's was a masterful sailor who had completed many voyages but he
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was bad-tempered struggled with a drinking problem and was known to harass female passengers pelsaert
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and yak herbs had first met more than a year earlier when both were in India and
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grew to dislike one another after an altercation that occurred there during the Batavia voyage matters came to a
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head on April 14 16 29 when the ship stopped near the South African city of Cape Town to restock supplies but this
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stage that weather had caused the Batavia to separate from all but two other ships in at seven vessel flee
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while Commander pelsaert was on land bartering for goods captain Yakov's with the out permission
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rowed out in a small boat to visit the accompanying ships while on board he got drunk and violent resulting in a fire
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by the time pelsaert returned to the Batavia official complaints had been lodged against his captain pelsaert
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reprimanded Yaakov's which led to the humiliated yakov's deeply resented his superior pelsaert
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continued looking into the group assault against Lucretia yards though the perpetrators had concealed their faces
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Lucretia recognized the voice of one individual and identified him as yarn-overs the ship's bosun a title
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given to the senior officer in charge of the Batavia 'he's dak pelsaert also suspected captain Yaakov's was somehow
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involved and was mindful that the captain had attempted to seduce Lucretia on several occasions but she rejected
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him despite pelsaert suspicions he knew arresting both Davidson jakub's would displace the crew so he postponed any
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further action until they arrived at their destination when captain yeah curbs had deserted the
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Batavia at Cape Town to visit its companionships he was joined by commander pelsaert deputy an under
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merchant named euronymous Cornelius 30-year old Cornelius was from a well-off educated
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family who belonged to the nonconformist and about this church a denomination considered controversial in the Dutch
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Republic Cornelius followed in his father's footsteps and became an apothecary preparing and selling medicines through
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his own shop in the Dutch city of Harlem in November 16:27 Cornelius and his wife
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had a baby boy who was placed in the care of a wet nurse after his mother became ill within several weeks the
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infant had contracted syphilis from the nurses breast milk and died as syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease
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this caused the significant scandal in an effort to save his wife's reputation Cornelius filed a lawsuit against the
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wet nurse though the incident destroyed his career and he found himself unable to pay a number of deaths
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moreover Cornelius was an associate and disciple of infamous painter johannes Terentius who was convicted on charges
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of heresy blasphemy atheism and Satanism in 1628 fearful that he would be prosecuted next
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Cornelius left his wife and fled to Amsterdam where he took service with the vo C and was posted to the Batavia he
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quickly formed a friendship with captain re and Yakov's who made his disdain for
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commander francisco pelsaert clear by remarking that were it not for the presence of other ships in the fleet
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quote I would treat that miserly dog so that he could not come out of his cabin for 14 days and I would quickly make
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myself master of the ship in response Cornelius asked jakub's and how would you manage that
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Cornelius did not Harbor the same personal resentment against pelsaert but was eager to take charge of the Batavia
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and steal the substantial fortune stored on the ship the pair plotted a mutiny a
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form of unlawful rebellion in which the crew of a ship overthrow their leader morale amidst the Batavia screw was low
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due to the poor conditions and awful treatment they enjoyed all for a low pay a few were convinced to join in the
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mutiny including bosun Jana votes several cadets a lance corporal and some of his soldiers in order for their plot
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to work they needed to isolate the Batavia by steering it away from its remaining fleet Captain Yakov's achieved
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this when the ship encountered a storm shortly after sailing away from South Africa's Cape of Good Hope as it wasn't
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uncommon for ships within a fleet to become separated this did not arouse any suspicion
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despite successfully isolating the Batavia Cornelius and yakov's group of mutineers was too small to stage a
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successful mutiny so they schemed to turn more men against commander Pulsar while disguised they
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would attack passenger Lucretia yarns whom pelsaert harbored romantic feelings for in response pelsaert would then
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discipline all of the ship soldiers and sailors enraging those punished and recruiting them to their cause however
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their plan failed when pelsaert did not take punitive measures against anybody for the assault on Lucretia the
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mutineers speculated that he was just biding his time and intended to take action once their route took them past
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the Australian mainland then uncharted landmass known as terror Australia's incognita the unknown Southland
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they quickly put together a new plan agreeing that as soon as pelsaert made any arrests for Lucretia's assault the
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mutineers would enter his cabin at night and throw him overboard they would then
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recruit 120 men to run this ship through all remaining passengers into the ocean
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and turned to piracy they planned to sail the Indian Ocean disguised as a vo sea ship before
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retiring in a far-off land with their stolen loot over the next few weeks the mutineers waited patiently for the
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signal that it was time to revolt during this period ships traveling from Europe
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to Asia used strong westerly winds in the southern hemisphere named the roaring 40s to speed east after
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leaving the Cape of Good Hope these winds sent them towards the west coast of Australia very quickly but as there
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was no accurate way to measure longitude crews had to gauge when it was time to steer north from sight and experience
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alone if they made a mistake and kept sailing east they ran the risk of hitting the Australian mainland June 16
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2013 8 month at sea by the early morning of June 4 it had been three weeks since
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Lucretia yarns had been assaulted by the mutineers and the Batavia was making use
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of the roaring 40s it was a clear night and the moon provided ample light to see
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by shortly after 3 a.m. Commander pelsaert was violently thrown from his bed following a rough terrible
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movement he ran out to the deck and upon seeing that the ship had run directly into an enormous coral reef he shouted
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at captain Yakov's what have you done that through your reckless carelessness you have run this noose around our necks
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jakub's claimed the accident was not his fault stating that he had sighted surf spray breaking against the reef from a
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distance but the ship's lookout insisted it was nothing more than the moon's reflection on the water
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as it was unclear whether the tide was high or low the crew wondered whether they might have simply run aground in
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shallows and would be able to float back out to sea once the water level rose but
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after waiting several hours it became clear that the collision had taken place at high tide falling water levels
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revealed they were surrounded by rocks reefs and small islands the impact had careened the ship half out of the ocean
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with sharp coral tearing away its rudder and gouging its timber sides several frightened individuals jumped overboard
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and either drowned or were pierced by the sharp coral below the crew began discarding cannons and the Gunners to
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lighten the Batavia slowed and just after dawn they cut its main mast down as well
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historians would later determined that the Batavia struck a shoal called the morning reef in the northernmost cluster
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of the ax braless a network of 122 barren windswept islands and associated coral reefs in the Indian Ocean they are
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located roughly 60 kilometers west of what is today the city of Geraldton in Western Australia there are three
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distinct groups of islands all of which have little in the way of vegetation or wildlife aside from a few sea lions and
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birds seven hours after the collision as preparations were underway to safely relocate Batavia spaß injures the ship
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burst open below the waterline and its hold began filling with water the ship's crew began rowing the passengers away in
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the Batavia longboat an open vessel capable of holding 40 people and its you're a sailboat that could carry 23
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they were set down on an island about two kilometres from the shipwreck it was a tiny hard and flat landmass with no
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vegetation sand or shelter broken and sharp coral pieces lay all over the ground making it difficult to walk on by
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add asked a number of people had been transferred to the island including all of the women and children 150 points of
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drinking water barrels of wine meat and bread and a casket full of valuable trade goods such as jewelry gold and
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precious stones were also transported to land rescue work paused that night when
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it became too dark to see roughly 120 people still remained on the slowly crumbling Batavia
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at dawn the following morning efforts to retrieve those still stranded on the batavia recommenced the small island
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closest to the ship became overcrowded so 180 men women and children were moved to a larger landmass roughly 800 metres
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away that had a sandy beach they were given a limited supply of food while Commander pelsaert captain yeah curbs
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all of the senior BOC company officials a number of sailors two women and one infant remained on the smaller island
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with the longboat and your commander pelsaert was convinced to travel to the Australian mainland to find suppliers as
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the journey would require a couple of days preparation he opted to explore other nearby islands in the meantime
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before departing on their expedition pelsaert and some of his companions rode over to the larger islands where the
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majority of survivors were now stationed to give them a barrel of drinking water
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and explain their plans as they approached the survivors gathered together on the shoreline fearful that
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they would be mobbed and prevented from leaving the men rowing refused to stop and a wooden allow pelsaert to deliver
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the water pelsaert continued north to inspect the two largest islands in their vicinity where he dug for water but
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found none he returned to his camp on the small inlet nearest the Batavia and on June 8th four days after the
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shipwreck departed for the Australian mainland he left behind a note explaining his actions and ordered his
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crewmen to sign an oath confirming that their mission was to search for water they set sail in Batavia as the longboat
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with the smaller y'all tied to the back the longboat was designed to carry 40 people but as no one from pelsaert
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Island wanted to be left behind it held 48 in total they left all the ships recovered
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jewels and coins behind the group sailed north along the Western Australian coast
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the barren land was framed by jagged cliffs that soared up to 228 meters higher on several occasions they managed
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to row to a shoreline and succeeded in collecting rainwater but never found a permanent freshwater supplier after
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sailing for a week without success it was decided that they should continue on to their original destination of Batavia
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in Indonesia to seek rescue assistance from the vo sea upon learning of Commander pelsaert departure the knee
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200 survivors on the big island were left devastated they accused their leader of abandoning them and dumped the
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small Inlet where pelsaert had camped traders Island their own Island which measured 270 metres wide and half a
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kilometre long was named Batavia scrod historian Mike - described it as a strip of coral rubble where the only living
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thing was the wind the shipwreck survivors are landed there at the beginning of the southern hemispheres
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winter which regularly battered the area with storms and fierce gales of those stranded on Batavia is graveyard at
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least 100 were vo sea soldiers or sailors one more than a dozen others were men with trade experience such as
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carpenters and blacksmiths there were 21 women the majority of whom were wives of the crew a number of
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teenagers and children and two infants who were born during the voyage most of the populations food and two water
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suppliers were depleted within a day and anxieties only increased when commander
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pelsaert sailed away with the other vo sea officials some survivors were driven to
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drinking seawater or their own urine while 10 people died from dehydration it finally rained on the 6th and 7th days
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of their ordeal allowing them to collect a valuable drinking water meanwhile 70 men had chosen to stay on the Batavia
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including mutineer Euronymous Cornelius they pillaged suppliers and helped themselves to food and alcohol when the
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ship started flooding and breaking apart it became harder and harder for them to
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find safe dry places some jumped overboard attempting to wear the float or swim to safety most failed with 40
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people drowning as a result On June 12 one week after the collision the ship collapsed completely
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just as its hull started disintegrating Cornelius jumped from the deck and grasp onto a
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pole from a mast that had already landed in the ocean clutching it he floated towards the shallows spending two days
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in the water before reaching Batavia is graveyard by this time the survivors had created a
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functioning camp on the northeast portion of the island as the ship collapsed more supplies into useful
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wreckage kept washing up tents were crafted from canvas and mast poles driftwood was used for fires and barrels
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of wine water and vinegar had also been recovered the survivors hunted sea lions
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and birds for food decimating the wildlife population within a week Cornelius was taken to a dry area given
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a meal and a change of clothes as well as a bed to sleep in prior to his arrival a small Council had been
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established tasked with governing the islands population the role of council leader was initially given to the only
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survivor with any semblance of rank a surgeon who was popular with the ship's crew but lacked experience in command
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as commander pelsaert deputy Cornelius had a Rankin status that no one else present could claim and he was
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immediately elected to late the council Cornelius enjoyed the authority he was granted but was concerned that the large
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number of survivors would drain the islands resources and to become a threat to his own survival his worries
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increased when one of the young men who had been recruited for the Intendant mutiny on the Batavia started revealing
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details of the plot to others because he was angry captain yakov's left him behind he didn't share that Cornelius
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had also been involved the Cornelius was unnerved nonetheless if word spread that
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he had been part of a scheme to seize control of a BOC ship there was a chance he would be arrested and tried for
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treason when help arrived as such Cornelius began plotting another mutiny he believed that if he had a group of
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loyal supporters he would be able to overpower any rescuers and commandeer their vessel to assume a life of piracy
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he was known to be a charismatic and well-spoken individual and by late June he had successfully recruited two dozen
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men including some of the original mutineers as well as Army Cadets he then stockpiled all of the swords
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daggers and muskets that had been saved from the ship keeping them in a single storage area that he controlled he sent
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some of his men out on scouting missions to other islands to determine whether survival elsewhere would be possible
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using boats crafted from the ship's wreckage the men inspected several islands including the two large ones
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commander pelsaert had already visited which were given the collective name of the Highland due to a hill that rose
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from the smaller of the two they found two no drinking water and a little in the way of food
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despite this Cornelius proclaimed that his men had discovered decent resources elsewhere and announced that some people
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would be moved to other islands so that Batavia is graveyard wouldn't be overwhelmed he promised that that their
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supplies would be replenished as needed 40 men women and children were transported to an island to the west
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dubbed seals island 15 others were sent to the small Inlet that once harbored commander pelsaert and to the other vo
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sea officials traders Island then Cornelius announced that a third group comprised that 20 soldiers would also be
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sent away to source drinking water from the Highland he told the soldiers to send a smoke signals once they found
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water and someone would come to collect them in actual fact his plan was to remove the most threatening soldiers who
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were loyal to the vo sea by marooning them on the islands that were farthest away by dispatching these three groups
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Cornelius successfully cut the population of Batavia graveyard by 1/3 and removed nearly four dozen strong
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able-bodied men from his island Cornelius's next plan was to overhaul the council as other members could vote
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against any of his decisions that they didn't agree with an opportunity arose on July 4 exactly one month after the
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Batavia struck the reef Cornelius was informed that a soldier had been stealing wine from a storage tent and
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sharing it with a friend although the involvement of the second accused was difficult to prove Cornelius
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sentenced the both men to die knowing his fellow councillors would object in response to their outcry he dissolved
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the council gaining absolute power over the 130 plus people on Batavia is graveyard
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the next day cornelius replaced the ousted council members with three of his most
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loyal followers their first act was to carry out the execution of the 2-1 thieves the soldier was killed but his
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friends fate is unknown with some speculating that he escaped to another island that same day Cornelius accused
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the two carpenters of planning to sail away on a makeshift the raft within hours both men were executed but two of
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Cornelius's mutineers one later boasted that he sword went through his victim quote as easily as butter
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Cornelius ordered the killings under the guise of law enforcement as he was vastly outnumbered by the islands
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population and couldn't risk an uprising days passed and the soldiers sent to the
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Highland in search of resources had yet to release any smoke signals Cornelius declared that several parties
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of three to four individuals would be dispatched to assist them the first group consisting of two
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soldiers and two sailors were escorted to the Highlander via boat but David zavok
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a member of Cornelius's hand-picked Council as soon as they were out of sight as a bank and his crew of six
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mutineers launched an attack they bound three of their passengers by the wrists and ankles then threw them overboard
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the remaining passenger was given mercy on the condition he swear allegiance to Cornelius two days later the same trap
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was used again to drown two more men Hans Hardin's had been traveling on the Batavia with his wife Anakin and their
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six-year-old daughter Hill a train he had submitted to Cornelius likely to ensure provisions for his family
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uncertain as to whether he could trust Hans Cornelius carried out a test of his loyalty on July a he invited Hans and
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his wife to join him for a meal in his private 10 meanwhile a mutineer crept into the Hardin's family tank and
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strangled six-year-old hillier train to death she was one of nine people who had
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been murdered under Cornelius's rule so far and afterwards Hans Hardin's signed a loyalty oath to
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the mutineers private webby haze was leading the soldiers searching for resources on the
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Highland little is known of his background but he was a skilled fighter and a natural leader the group found
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nothing substantial on the smaller of the two islands after several days they explored the second larger island it was
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separated from the first by a one and a half kilometre sand bank that appeared at low tide this island was far more
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abundant in wildlife than any of the others the survivors had encountered it was populated by Wallabies snakes and
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birds and there were numerous fishing spots but they struggled to find a freshwater supply
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subsisting on rainwater birds eggs Wallabies and fish they explored the area more thoroughly than any of the
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earlier groups had done on July 9 they discovered two natural wells hidden beneath slabs of limestone a sedimentary
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rock that typically forms in shallow marine waters one of the wells was three metres deep and full of fresh water they
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hastily lit three fires to alert the survivors to the south of their crucial discovery
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the 15 people stationed on traders Island noticed the smoke signals right away they quickly boarded their two
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makeshift the boats and began rowing towards the Highland on Batavia is graveyard
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Cornelius initially ignored the smoke signals until he noticed the two traitors Island boats heading in their
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direction he ordered his men to attack and two of his most trusted followers David's a van and corn rat van heissen
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jumped into a boat with five other mutineers to pursue them they caught up to the traders Island survivors and
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ordered them to stop before boarding their vessels the passengers consisting mostly of soldiers and sailors but also
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three women and two children were forced to surrender several jumped into the ocean to escape
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only to drown the rest were taken back to the Tobias graveyard David's even raced over to consult with
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Cornelius he then ran back towards the shallows where the captives were being held crying out kill Cornelius's men
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stabbed both children and all of the men before rowing the three women out to sea
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friend episode 28 of case file covered the unsolved murder of Lindsay Busey AK the 24 year old real estate agent from
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Victoria Canada on November 2 2008 Lindsay was brutally killed when she went to show a property to potential
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clients in the suburb of Saanich the local Saanich Police Department took responsibility for the investigation but
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as of now Lindsay's murder still remains unsolved Lindsay's father Jeff Busey AK is campaigning to have
00:38:38
Lindsay's case removed from the Saanich Police Department and referred to a new agency in the hopes that fresh eyes
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might finally help the case be solved case file listeners can support Jeff's fight for justice by signing a petition
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to view the petition and add your name to it you can follow the link in the show notes of this episode or go to
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change.org click the search button at the top of the homepage and type in Busey AK bu z iak alternatively if you
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just Google Search Busey AK petition that's the first thing that appears in the days following the slaughter of
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the residents of traders Island roughly a dozen more men declared their loyalty to Cornelius the most of violent
00:39:37
mutineers emboldened after committing a public massacre regularly tormented others by taking their belongings and
00:39:44
threatening them the bloodshed continued and people lived in fear of inadvertently drawing
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attention to themselves eleven survivors were suffering from illnesses such as scurvy or fever and had been isolated to
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a communal tan Cornelius felt those in poor health were draining the island's resources on July 10 a mutineer
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following his orders entered the quarantine tent late at night and slit the throats of everyone inside from that
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point on it became extremely dangerous for anyone other than the mutineers to fall sick over time more and more ill
00:40:27
people were murdered commonly at night when they were at their most vulnerable by July 14 less than two weeks after the
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murders started the mutinies had killed nearly 50 survivors lowering the population of Batavia graveyard to
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around 90 those residing on the Highland and Seales island lived in relative safety out of reach though it wasn't
00:40:53
long before Cornelius turned his attention to them on July 15 Cornelius ordered seven mutineers to
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kill all the male inhabitants of sails Island as well as being armed with swords and daggers the mutineers had
00:41:11
crafted weapons called morning stars which typically consisted of a spark ball at the end of a chain attached to a
00:41:18
piece of wood the mutinies version consisted of half bench strips of lead with long nails attached rope was tied
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to one end so they could be swung at victims leading the attack were Cornelius's
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chief executioner's David's a bunk and corn rat van hasten as soon as they landed on seals island four men and six
00:41:44
boys were stabbed and killed those who were wounded were dragged to the shore to be drowned fifteen cabin boys managed
00:41:54
to outrun the mutineers and hired the for female inhabitants as per Cornelius's instruction were spared
00:42:03
eight men escaped to the Highland using boats they had crafted in a secluded area of the island after slaughtering
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half of seals Islands population the mutineers returned to Batavia is graveyard three days later on July 18
00:42:22
Cornelius ordered his men to return to seals island after dark and to finish the job upon arrival is a vow handed a
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mutiny his knife and instructed him to kill the four women without hesitation the mutineer went to a heavily pregnant
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woman named Mikan Soares took her by the hand and said Mike and love you must die
00:42:49
before throwing her down and cutting her throat the other three women were also murdered
00:42:57
12 of the cabin boys were stabbed and bludgeoned those who didn't die immediately were drowned at sea three
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boys survived by running away and hiding in bushes they were safe until almost a week later on July 24
00:43:16
when they emerged in sight of Batavia graveyard Cornelius saw them and sent men to
00:43:23
capture them they were forced onto a boat with one of the boys made to throw the other two overboard to drown he was
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permitted to live in exchange for becoming a mutineer towards the end of July Cornelius ordered increasingly
00:43:44
violent and shocking deaths in one instance he became enraged by a sick baby girl who cried constantly at night
00:43:53
as a former pharmacist he offered the child's mother and medicine he'd mixed claiming it would help this would be the
00:44:01
only time he attempted to kill someone by his own hands after consuming the concoction the baby entered a comatose
00:44:10
state but didn't die the following night Cornelius had a mutineer strangle her Cornelius's egomania went unchecked he
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wore commander francisco pelsaert expensive clothes and would change outfits multiple times a day his most
00:44:31
trusted followers were also given special outfits made from expensive high-quality red wool and sewn with
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elaborate trimmings they lived to better than anybody else on the island eating cask meat from the ship's rations rather
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than surviving on birds and sea lions like everyone else they slept in spacious tents and drank wine instead of
00:44:54
rainwater mutineers who achieved the highest status were those who could overpower and slaughter other men while
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those who killed women and children had a lower ranking some mutant is sort of high-ranking as a
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matter of survival and to gain access to rations others were particularly bloodthirsty individuals who enjoyed
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being able to kill and abuse others without consequence guys Bert Bastien's his wife Maria and to their seven
00:45:27
children had managed to survive a life on behaviour graveyard so far during part two guys birth status as a man of
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the church guys Bert was a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church known as a predicate shortly after the shipwreck
00:45:44
guys births 21 year old daughter Judy caught the attention of one of Cornelius's most violent and cruel
00:45:51
henchmen corn rat van heissen he proposed to her on the condition that they consummate their marriage on the
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island despite being unable to legally marry until they returned home Judy discussed the issue with her father and
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too though both were distressed by the offer they believed her acceptance was the only way to ensure her safety
00:46:16
so Judy reluctantly agreed to become Ben hi son's wife on July 21 Judy and her father were invited to dine with the van
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hoisin and Cornelius while they ate David's Avant and eight other mutineers approached the
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tent where the rest of guys Bert's family were staying is a van called out for the families maid and when she
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approached he stabbed her he and the others then entered the tent claiming they were carrying out a search
00:46:50
following reports that the family had stolen supplies after ransacking the tent they extinguished a hanging lenten
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and attacked the entire family using a hatchet and an axe Maria and six of her children whose ages ranged from eight to
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twenty three were killed their bodies were dumped in a mass grave that had been dug earlier that evening
00:47:18
the mutineers continued their rampage throughout the night killing the vocs bookkeeper and the mother of the baby
00:47:27
Cornelius had poisoned their bodies were then deposited in the same mass grave that held guys Bert Bastien's family
00:47:38
while the massacre was underway Ari's yonce a military barber and surgeon who resided on Batavia graveyard was set
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upon by two mutineers armed with swords fortunately their weapons were blunt allowing Ari's to escape with only minor
00:47:56
wounds he dove into the ocean and hid in the dark shallows as the mutineers searched for him when they failed to
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spot Aires the assailants with the drew back to camp presuming their victim had succumbed to his injuries after they
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left Ari's snuck over to the side of the island where the mutineers kept their boats he boarded one and set sail for
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the Highland when iris reached the Highland he told private Webby Hayes and to the other soldiers settled there what
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had been taking place at Batavia is graveyard the islands inhabitants were aware of the atrocities Cornelius and
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his mutineers had been committing as many were refugees that had successfully escaped the bloodshed
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since Cornelius came into power the population of the Highland had more than doubled to forty five men and a one boy
00:48:56
in case cornelius stormed their island private Hayes and his men crafted wooden pipes with nails hammered into the ends
00:49:05
collected a lumps of coral to throw at intruders and made their own morning stars from wreckage that had washed up
00:49:13
Paes had the advantage of being a skilled leader with strong soldiers and a sound understanding of battle tactics
00:49:21
the only way to access their island was from the neighboring island Sam Bain cut
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low tide ensuring the mutineers wouldn't be able to launch a surprise attack Hayes constructed a two-room fort from
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limestone and coral slabs that overlooked the sand bank allowing his men to keep a watch for invaders and
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take shelter from any potential threat two days after the July 21 massacre Cornelius made a move against the those
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on the Highland in a seemingly friendly letter addressed to private Hayes small militia Cornelius referred to those who
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had fled to the Highland as evildoers who were banished from Batavia graveyard he claimed to they had left without
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permission and ordered they'd be returned to him along with the boat that Ari's yarns had stolen Hayes didn't
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believe Cornelius's claims and instead imprisoned the mutineer who delivered the letter
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after several days passed with no reply or sign of his messenger Cornelius launched an attack he sent his two chief
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executioner's David's a bank and a corn rat van hasten to the island with 20 other mutineers yet they were forced to
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retreat as their adversaries had observed them approach and took up arms on August 5 as a Vulcan - van -
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attempted another incursion this time with all the mutineers as they waded through the shallows towards the island
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they were once again met by the well-prepared soldiers and were forced to turn back
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meanwhile the inhabitants of Batavia graveyard continued to suffer by August only seven women remained
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alive and all were forced into sexual slavery Cornelius became fixated on Lucretia yarns who had already enjoyed a
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demeaning assault at the hands of the mutineers while on the Batavia he attempted to seduce her by writing her
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poems and giving her wine but she rejected his advances after two weeks Cornelius lost his
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temper and complained to David's a bunk about the matter his day Valkyr then threatened to Lucretia with death if she
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didn't comply with Cornelius's wishes so she submitted to his will in that same month a boy was blindfolded under the
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guise of a joke only to be decapitated Hans Hardin's who had already endured the murder of his six-year-old daughter
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Hilla train also lost his wife when she was strangled with her own hair ribbon the man who led the survivors prior to
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Cornelius's arrival was stabbed with a pike and sword then hit in the head with a morning star the mutineers openly
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discussed whom they would like to murder next and people were not permitted to mourn for their loved ones following the
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massacre of Gauss Bert Bastien's family mutant is discovered him crying and stated be silent or you go the same way
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guys Bert's life was regularly threatened but Cornelius believed he might prove a useful bargaining chip in
00:52:59
the battle against the Heil and so he was kept alive by late August winter was drawing to an end and it was raining
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less resulting in depleting water suppliers Cornelius attempted yet another charge on the Highland this time
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with a more deceptive approach on September 1 he sent two guys Bert Bastien's to negotiate a peace treaty
00:53:28
with private Hayes who agreed to receive the mutineers the following day on September 2 the entire population of
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Batavia graveyard now reduced to 32 men and six women traveled to the Highland with Cornelius
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they watched from the sand bank between islands as Cornelius and five of his most loyal followers continued onwards
00:53:55
they gifted their adversary's new clothes and red wine which were well received as Cornelius and Hayes engaged
00:54:05
in peace talks the mutineers offered the soldiers from the Highland jewels and money to switch sides
00:54:11
in response the soldiers launched a surprise attack arresting Cornelius and four of his men including David's a bunk
00:54:21
and corn rat van - one mutineer named Val Talos managed to escape and to reach a small bow the mutineers waiting on the
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sandbank made a beeline for the soldiers though they had to run almost half a kilometer to reach them they vastly
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outnumbered the soldiers so private Webby Hayes ordered the immediate execution of Cornelius's captured
00:54:48
followers to scare the rest of the mutineers away but David's a bunk and corn rat van Hyson were among those
00:54:57
killed the brutal display caused the approaching mutineers to retreat back to Batavia 'he's graveyard taking the
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innocent survivors with them Your Honor mr. Cornelius now a prisoner of the Highland was placed in a limestone pit
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that functioned as a cell he spent his days plucking feathers from birds that the soldiers had hunted
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over on Batavia graveyard a new ruler was elected from the mutineers ranks 24-year old without a louse under his
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authority the murders ceased and women were no longer abused with Cornelius now gone a number of men abandoned the cause
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leaving fewer than 20 loyalists two weeks later supplies on patatas graveyard were running low in a
00:55:54
desperate bid to gain access to their water and food Lois declared war on the highlands the battle commenced at 9:00
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a.m. on September 17 though the remaining mutineers were now vastly outnumbered and didn't have the military
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experience of their opponents they did have two muskets each capable of firing one round per minute private webby Hayes
00:56:21
and his men took cover behind rocks and in there fought but the mutineers still managed to wound four soldiers
00:56:28
one of whom later died from his injuries the confrontation continued for several
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hours until suddenly in the early afternoon a ship appeared on the horizon [Music]
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commander Francisco pelsaert and his group of 48 survivors had sailed for almost a month
00:56:52
in an effort to reach the Batavia settlement in Indonesia for help they suffered no losses over the course of
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their journey and successfully reached the Dutch settlement on July 7 16:29 two days later pelsaert was summoned to
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appear before the vocs council to account for the loss of the company's new flagship vessel and its precious
00:57:16
cargo pelsaert described the manner in which the Batavia had crashed into the reef explaining that the majority of
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people on board had survived and did they had managed to recover its most valuable items among those who
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accompanied pelsaert to Batavia was he's a longtime adversary captain Harry and yeah kerbs he was held accountable for
00:57:42
his actions aboard the Batavia including orchestrating the attack on Lucretia yarns in a failed bid at mutiny both he
00:57:50
and Batavia spos'n yar neighbors who Lucretia identified as the ringleader were arrested after being tortured a
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Virts confessed to his part in a mutiny and to the assault of Lucretia and was executed by hanging captain Yakov's was
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ordered to stint trial for the faulty navigation that led to the Batavia becoming shipwrecked and his role in
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quote a gross evil and public assault Commander pelsaert was granted another vocs ship named the Sodom to rescue the
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survivors Heda left behind and to recover as much cargo as possible he departed Batavia on July 15 with a
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small crew and began sailing back towards their braless Islands by August 10 there were less than 80 kilometers
00:58:46
from the shipwreck site but a navigation miscalculation as well as poor weather made it difficult to find the islands
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that took more than a month for them to orientate themselves by September 13 the
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rescuers finally reached the northern end of the island chain three days later on the evening of September 16 they
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sighted what remained of the Batavia and steered towards it the next morning they
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dropped anchor had approximately midday on September 17 three kilometers from the Highland and six and a half
00:59:24
kilometers from Batavia is graveyard as soon as the mutineers caught sight of the rescue ship they ceased their attack
00:59:36
on the Highland a boat was sighted rowing from the ship towards the smaller of the two Highland Islands which sat
00:59:44
south from where the battle was being waged a number of the mutineers who were still dedicated to Cornelius's plan of
00:59:52
commandeering a rescue vessel immediately set sail for the sedan at the same time private webby Hayes and
01:00:02
three of his men raced to their own makeshift boat hoping that they would be able to reach the rescuers first the two
01:00:10
groups began frantically rowing trying to beat one another there commander pelsaert along with several
01:00:19
crew members had loaded one of the sardines boats with supplies such as bread and water and headed towards the
01:00:26
nearest to visible land just as they reached its shores and disembarked a boat carrying four men drew close one of
01:00:36
the men left out and shouted at them welcome that go back aboard immediately but there is a party of miscreants on
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the islands near the rack who had the intention to seize the yacht the men was private webby Hayes he quickly informed
01:00:54
pelsaert of the events that had taken place over the past few months pelsaert set back out for the sardian to warn the
01:01:03
remainder of his crew as he neared the ship he saw the mutineers were also rapidly approaching in their boat when
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the mutineers boarded the sardian they were greeted by guns and Parks pelsaert had made it aboard just in time to alert
01:01:22
the crew of the ambush the mutineers surrendered and were arrested during interrogations they revealed they had
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killed more than 100 men women and children under the order of Euronymous Cornelius some also admitted to being
01:01:41
part of the original mutiny on the Batavia revealing the captain Aryan Yakov's had been one of the masterminds
01:01:48
behind it Cornelius was retrieved from his limestone prison and taken aboard the Sodom
01:01:57
upon seeing the bound man command app Elsa looked at his former deputy with great sorrow as he was quote such a
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scoundrel cause of so many disasters and of the shedding of human blood Cornelius tried to absolve himself of
01:02:16
any guilt by implicating his various followers in the mutiny and murders but his claims were rejected and he was
01:02:23
locked up in a Cell the following morning pelsaert and several armed soldiers went to the
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Tobias Graveyard to arrest the remaining mutineers and rescued the survivors they
01:02:37
discovered crucial pieces of evidence on the island including several oaths that
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Cornelius had made his followers sign Dutch law at the time dictated that justice needed to be meted out as
01:02:54
quickly as possible so it was decided that the trials of the mutinies ringleaders would be carried out on the
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islands where the crimes had taken place pelsaert and five other high-ranking officials from the sodom and the Batavia
01:03:08
formed a council and began proceedings while the survivors were housed on the sedan the accused mutineers were kept
01:03:17
prisoner on seals island far away from everybody else the defendants had no lawyers so the trial solely consisted of
01:03:26
pelsaert questioning witnesses as only a few of the perpetrators would admit to their crimes
01:03:33
torture was used to elicit confessions from the others including Cornelius interrogators would strap the individual
01:03:42
to a frame then slowly pour water over their head until it covered their faces and hindered their ability to breathe
01:03:49
they were then forced to drink the water which led to extreme bloating and fainting if the torture lasted for an
01:03:56
extended period Cornelius endured several days of these sessions he had a little hope of convincing the council he
01:04:05
was innocent as these former followers were willing to testify against him furthermore the recovered oaths proved
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his control over the inhabitants of Batavia Sh graveyard he eventually acknowledged that he'd
01:04:20
ordered the deaths of three dozen people and planned a mutiny on board the Batavia however he blamed many of the
01:04:28
remaining murders on the mutineers who had died in the failed attack on the Highland after admitting to some of his
01:04:36
crimes Cornelius attempted to delay his sentencing by reneging his confession quibbling over small details at trial
01:04:44
and asking to speak with his wife back in the Dutch Republic he ultimately signed a confession on September 28 and
01:04:52
was sentenced to have both his hands cut off and to be executed by hanging upset at the outcome cornelius stated I
01:05:02
see well they want my blood into my life that God would not suffer that I shall die a shameful death I know for certain
01:05:12
and you will all see it that God will perform unto me this night a miracle so that I shall not be hanged on September
01:05:22
29 Cornelius attempted to take his own life by drinking poison but survived and was
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in so much pain that he begged for an antidote his execution along with the executions of seven other mutineers took
01:05:38
place on seals Island on October 2 16 29 before Cornelius was led to a set of gallows Lucretia yarns confronted him
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and insisted he take responsibility for raping her he replied it is true you are
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not to blame the other mutineers sentenced to die asked that cornelius be killed first so that they could watch
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their request was granted cornelius refused spiritual absolution and instead hurled to verbal abuse that his former
01:06:16
followers guys berg bastions who lost his wife and six children in one night under the order of cornelius later wrote
01:06:25
about his experiences he described how cornelius remained staunchly unrepentant quote saying even at the end as he
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mounted the gallows revenge revenge so that to the end of his life he was an evil man over the years many have
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speculated as to what motivated you run a mess cornelius to orchestrate the deaths of so many innocent people
01:06:55
historian mark dash theorized that cornelius was a psychopath due to his superficial charm ability to
01:07:03
manipulate others lack of compassion and impulsivity in his book Batavia is graveyard Mike -
01:07:11
writes though years of casual usage have stripped the word of much of its meaning
01:07:18
true Psychopaths are not evil men incapable of self-control on the contrary they are always chillingly in
01:07:26
command of their emotions what they actually lack is empathy the capacity to either understand or care what other
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people feel following Euronymous Cornelius's death for other mutineers had - their right
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hand severed and were subsequently killed while the remaining three were merely executed their bodies were left
01:07:50
out on display to remain hanging from the gallows until they decomposed nine remaining mutineers were to be
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taken to V OC headquarters in Batavia to be interrogated further nineteen men who
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signed Earths of loyalty to Cornelius were released unless incriminating evidence arose most of these individuals
01:08:17
likely aligned with Cornelius to protect themselves or others but a few of Cornelius's legitimate followers managed
01:08:26
to remain undetected before they embarked on their return journey to Batavia commander pelsaert was
01:08:34
determined to salvage anything and everything that he could from the shipwreck to please his superiors divers
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recovered 10 out of the vessels 12 chests of money of the missing - one had been trapped beneath the cannon and was
01:08:50
inaccessible while the other was never found [Music] the islands were also searched for
01:08:57
anything of value that could be given to the vo sea with pelsaert finding jewels
01:09:02
and other goods that Cornelius had hoarded for himself on October 12 thus our dams captain was sent out with four
01:09:11
other men to fetch a barrel of vinegar that had been sighted on a reef wild winds and rain ensued the following day
01:09:19
the five men were spotted attempting to navigate through the storm but never returned
01:09:27
by mid-november 1629 what remained of the Batavia Shrek ajaan the reef had been driven almost entirely underwater
01:09:35
by the waves pelsaert determined that nothing further could be saved and prepared to leave before sailing north
01:09:45
he decided they should first travel to the Australian mainland in a last-ditch effort to see whether Sam's missing
01:09:52
captain and sailors had made it to land he also planned to maroon two of the mutineers there as punishment for their
01:10:00
crimes the stranded mutineers were felt a loss who had Alette Cornelius's men following
01:10:08
his arrest and a cabin boy named yarn pilgrim the decision to abandon them was intended as merciful as pelsaert did
01:10:18
not believe a loss was as culpable as Cornelius while pilgrim was granted some leniency due to his youth on November 16
01:10:28
Lois and pilgrim were left with a boat and instructed to become familiar with the foreign land and its people in the
01:10:35
hopes they might be able to find gold silver or anything of value if ships passed by their location the pair were
01:10:44
permitted to be rescued so they could report what they discovered abandoning the two mutinies on the coast of Western
01:10:53
Australia made them the first Europeans to inhabit the country 159 years before the first British colony was established
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in Sydney in 1788 it is unknown what happened to them after they were abandoned as the BOC
01:11:08
never made any attempt to rescue them 200 years later in 1829 the first permanent British settlement was
01:11:18
established in Western Australia reports were received of a light-skinned indigenous people having lived along the
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coast some have speculated whether this meant blow sand pilgrim joined an indigenous tribe and had children with
01:11:33
them but there is no evidence to support this for those on board the SAR dam the
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journey to Batavia took just under three weeks due to strong winds and the Karma
01:11:46
spring weather they arrived on Wednesday December 5 16:29 two months later on January 31 1630 crowds gathered to watch
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the public sentencing and executions of the 12 remaining mutineers six were hanged with one having his right hand
01:12:11
severed as well three were publicly flogged and two then sent into exile two of the younger mutineers aged 15 and 17
01:12:21
were made to draw lots to see which of them would be executed and which would only be flogged with one being granted
01:12:28
mercy due to their young age a particularly brutal mutiny named Jakob Peters was found to have participated in
01:12:38
the original mutiny as well as engineering the slaughter of guys Bert bastions family
01:12:44
he was sentenced to the most severe punishment possible death by being broken on the wheel it involved an
01:12:53
individual being tied to a scaffold while an executioner used an iron bar to crush all of the bones in their arms and
01:13:00
legs they would then be placed on a huge cart wheel who stood upright and publicly
01:13:06
displayed with death sometimes taking hours to occur but AVS captain Aryan Yakov's refused to talk although he had
01:13:18
been implicated in the mutiny on the Batavia the only evidence was the accusations made by Commander pelsaert
01:13:25
and some of those involved nevertheless he remained in prison until June 16 31 on unproven charges after this there are
01:13:37
no further records of Yakov's and it is believed he died in custody a number of mutineers escaped capture and
01:13:47
punishment for their actions for sailors who joined pelsaert on the longboat thus
01:13:53
sailed to Batavia to get help had been part of Yaakov's and Cornelius's original mutiny plot and
01:13:59
three had taken part in the assault of Lucretia yarns however they remained behind rather than participate in the
01:14:08
rescue mission pelsaert learned of their involvement when he interrogated the other mutineers but by the time the
01:14:16
siddhim returned to Batavia they had disappeared of the more than 200 individuals who were marooned on their
01:14:28
braless islands but three months only 74 innocent survivors reached their final destination of Batavia including five
01:14:36
women and one child vo see archives indicate that 115 people were murdered by Cornelius and his
01:14:45
followers a figure that amounts to more than a third of the Batavia is original passengers
01:14:52
private webby haze emerged as the hero of the tragedy for protecting those who had escaped Cornelius's men by
01:15:00
establishing a stronghold on the Highland he was promoted to the rank of sergeant his salary was doubled and he
01:15:07
went on to have a successful military career the men who fought alongside him also received promotions and wage
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increases for Lucretia yarns her arrival for the Batavia settlement in Indonesia
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resulted in further sorrow the point of her journey was to reunite with her husband following the unexpected deaths
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of their three children however he had been posted to Burma without her knowledge sometime earlier and had since
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died she opted to remain in Batavia and to remarried in October 1630 before returning home to answer the dam with
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her second husband in 1635 [Music] shortly after arriving at the Batavia settlement in December 16:29 guys burg
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Bastien's decided to write to extended family members to relay the murder of his wife and children as well as his
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experiences over the past few months he penned a lengthy letter which later became one of the key records of the
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shipwreck and a massacre two years later he remarried a widow and was sent to the
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bender islands 2,000 kilometers east of Batavia to minister the troops stationed
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to there he later caught dysentery and died in the spring of 1633 his daughter Judy had endured and not only the loss
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of her family but repeated sexual abuse during her time on Batavia graveyard to secure her future she married a man
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after her rescue but he died within a few months of their wedding she remarried a year later but her second
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husband passed away after four years of marriage taking pity on judex situation the V OC awarded her six hundred
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guilders compensation almost ten thousand Australian dollars in today's currency this enabled Judy to return to
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the Dutch Republic to live in relative comfort commander Francisco pelsaert was posted to Sumatra to be
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second-in-command of a military operation he wrote a detailed journal about the Batavia shipwreck and subsequent events
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for his superiors after reading it the commanders of the vo sea became displeased with pelsaert believing that
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if he hadn't left the survivors without a leader on the islands the massacre might have never occurred there were no
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real consequences for pelsaert as he had become gravely ill a month earlier and died in September 1630 at the age of 35
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his journal which provides a comprehensive account of the tragedy has been translated into English and des
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stored in the Netherlands State Archives in the city of the hague during the period when the vo c was journeying east
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through the Indian Ocean a number of Dutch ships were racked along the dangerous and too volatile West
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Australian coast but the events that followed the Batavia colliding with morning reef in the ER braless islands
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made it the most notorious although the ship's story became infamous in the Dutch Republic in the immediate
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aftermath the exact location of the wreck became something of a mystery in 1840 Captain John Lord Stokes was charting
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their braless islands for Britain's Royal Navy when he came across some large beams on an island in the southern
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group convinced the Advanta the side of the rack he named the landmass pelsaert Island in the 1950s the story of the
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Batavia fascinated Perth based the journalist novelist and historian Henrietta Drake Brockman when she
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learned of the discovery of utensils a pistol and two human skeletons on inlets 80 kilometers north of pelsaert Island
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she suspected captain Stokes had mistaken the vessels final resting place furthermore Henrietta pointed out that
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commander francisco pelsaert had described the Wallabies in his writings and the animals only lived on two
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islands in the north and group around at the same time the region became popular
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with Cray fishermen one day in 1960 a fisherman uncovered a human skeleton as well as a pewter Bell from a trumpet
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that was inscribed with the Year 1628 reigniting interest in the hunt for the Batavia
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in June 1963 Dave Johnson was sitting lobster pots in the area when he sighted something below the water he returned to
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the location on several occasions to re-examine the object and at one stage was digging on an island nearby and
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uncovered a skeleton he alerted diver max Kramer of his finds as max was in search of the shipwreck On June 4 1963
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exactly 334 years after the Batavia ran into mourning reef max became the first person to dive on the long lost ship
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which was located about two miles from where Henrietta Drake Brockman had estimated it would be the island where
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Dave Johnson had dug up the skeleton was now named beacon Island but centuries before had been dubbed Batavia slave
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yard the two Highland islands had been named East wallaby into West wallaby in the intervening years while the gallows
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on seals Island where the bodies of Euronymous Cornelius and several of his followers were left on display had a
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long since disintegrated remnants of private webby Hayes's stone fought remained on West wallaby Island making
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it the oldest European structure on Australian soil over the course of a decade the Batavia was salvaged divers
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found apothecary jars cannons grenades and anchor and coins from the chests that were left behind between 1972 and
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76 work carried out by the department of maritime archaeology led to parts of the
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ship's hull being discovered then carefully recorded and raised these were treated restored and then
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rebuilt and are currently on display at the shipwrecks Museum in the Western Australian city of Fremantle the Batavia
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expedition also features various recovered artifacts as well as a victims skeleton a replica of the doomed vessel
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was constructed in the 1990s and is currently in lay least on a city in the central Netherlands the longboat that
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commander Francisco pelsaert used to reach the Batavia settlement has also been replicated and set sail on the last
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Sunday of each month in the coastal city of Geraldton in Western Australia since
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the mid 1990s both Dutch and Australian archaeologists have undertaken several excavations on beacon Island to recover
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the remains of those massacred there and have succeeded in finding the skeletons
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of 16 people as recently as November 2017 they discovered another mass grave that contained the remains of five
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individuals in an interview with Australian television program 60 minutes Dutch maritime archaeologist - dr. Wendy
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van diving-board explained why she believed finding the victims still remained important almost 400 years
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later she stated that she carried out the work quote as an honor to those people who died there to get their story
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told give them a little bit back for being left behind in this place at the end of the earth
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