The Disturbing Kingdom of Batavia's Graveyard

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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In 1628, the Batavia, a flagship Dutch Indiaman left the port of Texel in the Netherlands bound for the Dutch capital in the East Indies filled to the upper decks with gold, silver, gems and jewellery, along with a crew made up of a host of down and out soldiers, sailors and officers. Life in the Dutch East India Company was notoriously hard, but the crew aboard the Batavia were in for a special kind of torture, when the ship was wrecked off the Western Coast of Australia, leading to several months of indescribable bloodshed and violence at the hands of an especially twisted Commander. SOURCES van Duivenvoorde, Wendy (2015) Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships. Texas A&M University Press, USA. Dash, Mike (2003) Batavia’s Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny. Crown Publishing Group, NY, USA. Fitzsimmons, Peter (2011) Batavia. William Heinemann Publishing, Australia ---------- For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or via voicemail on: (415) 286-5072 or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In 1628, the Batavia, a flagship Dutch Indian man, left the port of Texel in the Netherlands
0:11.0	bound for the Dutch capital in the East Indies, filled to the upper decks with gold, silver,
0:16.3	gems and jewelry.
0:17.9	Along with the crew made up of a host of down-and-out soldiers, sailors and officers.
0:23.6	Life in the Dutch East India Company was notoriously hard, but the crew aboard the Batavia were
0:29.4	in for a special kind of torture, when the ship was wrecked off the western coast of Australia,
0:34.8	leading to several months of indescribable bloodshed and violence, at the hands of an
0:39.6	especially twisted commander.
0:42.4	This is Dark History, where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:49.2	Hello and welcome to Dark History, Season 5, Episode 11, I'm Ben.
0:53.8	I hope this episode finds you in great health.
0:57.0	Before this episode starts, I just want to give a quick shout out to Taylor, who picked
1:01.1	up a book for me from my Amazon Dark History's wish list.
1:05.2	It came through, as I was almost finishing this episode, but there was one piece of information
1:10.5	that I didn't have and I was curious about, but I had no idea and it was in this book
1:15.4	and I managed to get it into this episode, so yeah, perfect timing.
1:19.8	Thank you very much for supporting the podcast in that way and everyone that does because
1:26.0	having those books is such an amazing reference for me, so yeah, thank you very much for that.
1:30.7	I also want to say that there's going to be the Patreon t-shirt prize draw at the end of this episode
1:37.1	for June, so yeah, do hang around for that if you're a patron, because yeah, I'll be,
1:45.2	let you know who won that at the end of this episode.
1:48.1	So without further ado, let's crack on, this is the disturbing kingdom of Batavia's grave
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