ATS2875 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Jeronimus Cornelisz, Francisco Pelsaert
15 Aug 2018
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The batavia shipwreck - article: over the course of three months one man led a campaign that killed 125 men, women, children and babies. In 1628, nearly 350 people were on board the batavia as it set out from holland and headed for the dutch colony of jakarta, indonesia. It sailed majorly off course and was wrecked on the coral reef of the abrolhos island on june. 4th 1629: around 40 people died trying to swim from the ship to the shore, 300 made it to shore, captain francisco pelsaert realised that rescue was not coming to attempted to sail from. The psychopath: mutineer and murderer jeronimus cornelisz is considered one of the history"s first documented psychopaths but has was said to have committed only one murder himself on. Beacon island: a baby of which he strangled to death: more than 120 other horrific crimes were committed by men following his orders, with.
