75/2700 Bucquoy, J. de. Aanmerkelyke ontmoetingen in de zestienjaarige reize naar de Indiën (...) byzonderlyk zyn wedervaaren in de bezending naa Rio de la Goa, van waar hy door de zeerovers is overvallen, en met eenigen is genoodzaakt geweest, dezelven uit te lootsen, en verder mede te gaan. Hoe op hunne Schepen ontmoet; te Madagaskar aan land gezet. Hoe zy zich op dat Eiland geneert hebben, en hun verder zwerven op de Afrikaansche en Malabaarsche kusten, tot at hy, na zeer veele uitgestaane elenden, te Batavia is aangeland, nevens zyn wedervaaren, aldaar. Haarlem, Jan Bosch, 1744, XVI,184p., engr. map and 2 fold. plates, contemp. vellum, sm. 4to.

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= Very rare. Landwehr, VOC, 294. Account of the VOC-cartographer Jacob de Bucqouy, posted in Fort Lijdzaamheid (present day Maputo, Mozambique). This VOC post was a financial failure and on top of that the Dutch fort was raided by English pirates in 1722 and part of the VOC employees were taken as hostages. Part of the hostages and the pirate crew were dropped at Madagascar. The author spent 3 years on the island. After that he and others built a small vessel that reached Mozambique and the few survivors of that voyage found a ship that took them to Goa, India. He reached the Dutch VOC posts on the Malabar coast and was finally taken to Batavia, Dutch Indies. In Batavia he found employment as taxcollector and mathmatics teacher. In 1731 he took an appointment as a bookkeeper in Ligor, Siam (Thailand), where he was promoted to resident. In 1735 he ended his contract with the VOC and returned via Cape de Goede Hoop, South Africa to the Netherlands. De Bucquoy gives various lively descriptions of the places and people he encounters, i.a. Maputo bay, Madagascar, Goa, Cape Goede Hoop and life aboard a pirate ship. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXVI.