The guy detailed within his page on the Amsterdam VOC administrators you to definitely the newest inhabitants out-of Selamon (to your High Banda) had been offering its mace within Palace Nassau once more. New VOC’s Contractboeken contain an agreement to this perception, signed because of the Reael plus the village’s ‘orangkayas and you will magistrates’. The fresh new Governor-General made use of the opportunity to strengthen VOC claims to the Banda Countries, and you will enforce a whole lot more limitations with the indigenous routing than ever before. For example, Bandanese fishermen just weren’t permitted to coastline its proas towards the island regarding Nera. Clearly, the latest Governor-Standard considered that, as with any other sovereigns, the fresh new VOC was eligible to handle access to the region. On top of that, this new Bandanese were expected to comply with Western european statutes having siege warfare. In case your Selamonese wanted to sail to many other locations on the isle of good Banda, they will must fly a white flag, such as. Should Bandanese vessels encounter Dutch vessels, they were needed, ‘when the test at’, to take in the sails and permit a search. Once they was in arms from appropriate passports, they’d found free passageway, needless to say. The fresh new Governor-General as well as the Councillors of your Indies might have had pair illusions this particular truce pact towards people regarding Selamon create last any more than the past plans. Others villages toward High Banda remained defiant, and allied that have Pulo Manage-but really Reael needed to continue his voyage so you can Ambon and Moluccas, where VOC’s native partners was in fact becoming restless as well. 80
It actually was rarely a happenstance that a keen English interloper, the latest Thomas, managed to receive a freight of cloves on leader from Tidore you to definitely summer
Reael’s tenure once the Governor-General was visiting a finish. Brand new Gentlemen XVII got felt like within the October 1617 provide the newest greatest job to Coen alternatively. Its meeting page shows that it need this new Governor-Standard to reside Bantam to manage the fresh distribution out-of steeped cargoes toward Dutch Republic, in the place of challenge expensive conflicts contrary to the Spanish and Portuguese during the the brand new Moluccas. They nevertheless asked Coen to invest a visit to new Spice Countries earliest-‘to put everything in order’-and you may expected for reports of one’s conquest regarding Pulo Work at eventually. Ominously, these were all in go for from peopling the brand new island that have Chinese settlers, due to the fact Coen got advised in just one of his letters. Van der Haghen and you may Reael obtained honourable discharges, and you will was indeed appreciated into the Dutch Republic. Yet the directors specified that both people would continue to be Councillors out of the Indies until its deviation for Amsterdam, voting second and you can third in virtually any appointment titled by the governor-standard. 81
Defeated inside the an excellent ‘only war’-or more the new Dutch think-Jakarta are renamed Batavia, and you may turned into the fresh new nucleus of one’s VOC’s territorial sovereignty on the isle from Coffees
Coen acquired the news out-of his fulfilling inside the later April 1618, and instantly typed to help you Reael and you will Van der Haghen. They took some time on the directors’ choices getting used, however. Each other sweet pea van der Haghen and Reael was indeed too sick to go back so you can Bantam you to definitely autumn. Coen popular to stay in Jakarta to manage the building from an effective Dutch fortress indeed there-an extremely questionable building endeavor, to put it mildly. Growing opposition of both English in addition to rulers of Jakarta and you will Bantam spilled more on unlock warfare for the December 1618. In the event that English attained temporary coastal popularity, because of the fleets from , Coen in the end place cruise getting Ambon so you can assemble a whole lot more ships, troops and you can ammo. When you look at the February 1619, he took his oath off place of work on Palace Victoria, regarding exposure from each other Van der Haghen and you can Reael. The two men returned with your to help you Jakarta. Into the late May, Coen been able to alleviate the Dutch fortress here and you will totally wreck the brand new local urban area. Coen wasn’t completed yet ,. The guy become good , and you can distributed some vessels looking for the latest English. Into the July, John Jourdain is actually trapped and you may slain during the Patani, a slot into the eastern coastline of Malay Peninsula. 82