Twee Bezoeksreizen in Den Oostelijken Ned. Ind. Archipel 1821-1825

A Preacher’s Perspective

“…Even Rob Nieuwenhuys's Oost-Indische spiegel (1978:91) mentions him only briefly. On the other hand, Spoor (1996), Wertheim and Wertheim-Gijsse Weenink (1968:47-101), and Knappert (1927) have written about him. Parts of Roorda's travel texts have been included in the anthology God in Indië (Boomgaard, Poeze and Termorshuizen 1997:11-28).…”

The life and times of Cape Advocate Dirk Gysbert Reitz: a biographical note

“…106 Other islands in the Dutch East Indies include the island of Sumatra (north-west of Java, with its main towns of Padang and Pelambang), and the islands of Borneo (north-east of Java), Bali (east of Java), Timor, Ambon, Celebes, Lombok, Ternate, and Tidore. For a description of the journeys undertaken by two visiting clerics ("kerkvisitators") at the time when Reitz arrived there, and from which some sense of the geography of (and the state of conversions to Christianity in) the mainly outlying parts of the empire, including the activities of slave traders and head-hunters ("koppensnellers"), may be gained, see Knappert 1927. 107 Previously called Jayakarta or Jaccatra, the Dutch had in 1609 established a fort at Batavia: Kasteel Batavia, which was demolished between 1808 and 1811.…”