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Pelsaert and his men decided to try to reach Batavia to obtain help, and they all set sail again in the one remaining boat. Meanwhile, on the Houtman Abrolhos a merchant called Jerome Cornelius took over. He set up a council of ruffians, which murdered 125 of the survivors and looted the cargo. They made plans to seize the rescue ship when and if it appeared, but this was not to be. Pelsaert returned with help, arrested the ruffians, and brought them to a speedy trial. Seven were hanged, and two were marooned on the mainland.
In the north, Gerrit Frederikszoon de Witt, in the Vyanen, was driven on to the Australian coast while on his way back to the Netherlands. The land there was named De Witts Land. A Dutch map drawn in 1628 by Hessel Gerritz shows the west coast of Australia from De Witts Land in the north-west (near modern Port Hedland) to the eastern end of the Geat Australian Bight. Before long, the Dutch were referring to the whole land mass as New Holland. Pelsaert's shipwreck The west coast of Australia was no place to be shipwrecked.
There Swan was put ashore at Mindanao. In 1688 Dampier and the pirates visited the west coast of Australia, landing in or near Karakaoa Bay. Dampier took a keen interest in the land and its Aboriginal inhabitants. After careening their ship, the men set sail again, this time for Indonesia. Dampier slipped away at the Nicobar Islands, and sailed an outrigger canoe through storms to Sumatra. From there he made his way home to England. In England Dampier wrote an account of his adventures entitled A New VQYage Round the World.