1620 Spilbergen at San Jago and Navidad, Mexico
DESCRIPTION
Three Mexican harbors and a battle with Spanish troops from Joris van Spilbergen's voyage appear in this excerpted leaf from the appendix to Part XI of de Bry's "Grands Voyages."
The caption reads "Abbildung deß Hafens San Jago, Selagues und Nativida," or "Depiction of the harbor of San Jago, Selagues, and Nativida." The text below keys the letters to the scene: A is the harbor of San Jago where the Dutch fleet anchored, B a small Spanish ship keeping watch, and C the harbor of Selagues, where "der Jäger" lay, likely the fleet's yacht of that name, and where the Spanish attacked the Dutch. D marks the Spanish coming out of the woods, E the Dutch advancing on them from the other side, F the bodies of the slain, and G the Dutch guarding the boats, while H is the harbor of Nativida a little farther on, I a freshwater stream, and K the strange fish found there.
Spilbergen's Voyage
Joris van Spilbergen led a fleet of the Dutch East India Company around the world from 1614 to 1617, passing through the Strait of Magellan, raiding the Pacific coast of Spanish America, and crossing to the Philippines and the Moluccas. In late 1615 the fleet put in along the Pacific coast of Mexico, where Spanish troops attacked a Dutch landing party at Salagua, near modern Manzanillo. Spilbergen's journal was published at Leiden in 1619, and the de Bry firm, then run by Johann Theodor de Bry at Oppenheim, issued an account of the voyage with its own engraved plates as an appendix to Part XI of the Grands Voyages.
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