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Shipwrecked sailors from the ship Terschelling en route to Decca

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Shipwrecked sailors from the ship Terschelling en route to Decca

Anoniem / Anonymous / Marshoorn, Johannes

Shipwrecked sailors from the ship Terschelling in the army procession of the Nabab [viceroy] of Decca.

On the home journey from Batavia the Terschelling ran onto a sandbank off the coast of Bengal in 1661. Some of the crew struggled to safety on an island off the coast and managed to reach dry land a month later. After some wandering they ended up in the army of the Nabab of Decca, who was a field marshall of the Great Mogul.

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Sources and literature

Struys, Jan Janszoon en Frans Jansz van der Heiden, Drie aanmerkelyke reizen, door Italien, Griekenland, Lyfland, Moscovien [...]: en verscheiden andere gewesten .. Hier is noch by gevoegt Frans Jansz. van der Heiden vervaarlyke schipbreuk van 't Oost-Indisch jacht ter Schelling (1742)