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Title: Indonesia: 'A Javanese ship at Bantam', from Cornelis de Houtman's Voyage to the East Indies,1595-1597
Caption: Cornelis de Houtman (2 April 1565 – 1 September 1599) was a Dutch explorer who discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia and managed to begin the Dutch spice trade. At the time, the Portuguese Empire held a monopoly on the spice trade, and the voyage was a symbolic victory for the Dutch, even though the voyage itself was a disaster. The voyage may be regarded as the start of the Dutch colonisation of Indonesia. Within five years, sixty-five more Dutch ships had sailed east to trade. Soon, the Dutch would fully take over the spice trade in and around the Indian Ocean.
Credit: Album / Pictures From History/Universal Images Group
Image size: 5100 × 3408 px | 49.7 MB
Print size: 43.2 × 28.9 cm | 2007.9 × 1341.7 in (300 dpi)