Reijsbeschrijvinge
'Description of the journey of Cornelis Stout'
Cornelis Stout
Date: About 1680
Original Language: Dutch
Description
The work, 51 double folio pages long in the surviving manuscript, which is probably an autograph, is the diary of the sad history of Stout’s failed voyage to the Dutch colony in Surinam, where the young family planned to start a new life. Shortly after they left their homeland, their ship was seized by Algeri…