Voyage to the Great Indies (1644 - 1651)

This book is the English translation of an anonymous Diary (1644-1651), whose author happened to be a young Parisian of noble lineage. For a peculiar reason, he became a mercenary at the service of the United Dutch East India Company (VOC). He signed a five-year contract as musketeer, spent mostly in Melaka, a few years after the Dutch conquered the Fort and the Town from their arch-enemies, the Portuguese. He was never promoted, he was even once jailed for a fight with an officer, and strangely, he never used the letters of recommendation given to him in Paris.