10 ... at noon we were in 12° 5’; I went ashore myself with the skipper, and as before found many footprints of men and dogs, going to the south; the land here is high and hilly, with reefs near the sandy beach; as we were pulling back to the yacht, some armed savages showed themselves, upon which we landed again and threw out some pieces of iron to them, which they picked up, refusing, however, to come to parley with us; after which we took to the pinnace again.
11 ... in the afternoon we sailed past a large river (which the men of the Duifken went up with a boat in 1606, and where one of them was killed by the arrows of the blacks); to this river, which is in 11° 48’ Lat., we have given the name of revier de Carpentier in the new chart .
12 ... I went ashore myself with the skipper, and found upwards of 200 savages standing on the beach, making a violent noise, threatening to throw their arrows at us, and evidently full of suspicion; for, though we threw out to them pieces of iron and other things, they refused to come to parley, and used every possible means to wound one of our men and get him into their power; we were accordingly compelled to frighten them by firing one or two shots at them, by which one of the blacks was hit in the breast and carried to the pinnace by our men, upon which all the others retired to the hills or dunes; in their wretched huts on the beach we found nothing but a square-cut assagay, two or three small pebbles, and some human bones, which they use in constructing their weapons and scraping the same; we also found a quantity of black resin and a piece of metal, which the wounded man had in his net, and which he had most probably got from the men of the Duyfken; since there was nothing further to be done here, we rowed back to the yacht, the wounded man dying before we had reached her; at noon we set sail with a S.W. wind on a N.N.E. course along the land, and as it fell calm, came to anchor after having run on for 2 miles.
13 ... at noon we were in 11° 16’ Lat., the wind being E.; in the evening we came to anchor in 2 fathom near a river, which we have named Revier van Spult in the chart.
14 Near the mouth of the Jardine River south-west of Cape York Carstensz nearly discovered the passage between Cape York and New Guinea but met adverse winds and decided to return.
... I went ashore here myself with the skipper and 10 musketeers and found a large number of footprints of men and dogs going south; we also came upon a very fine fresh-water river, flowing into the sea, whence fresh water can easily be obtained by means of boats or pinnaces; the river is in 10° 50’, and is marked Waterplaets in the chart. The land here is high, hilly, and reefy near the sandy beach; seeing that nothing profitable could be effected here, we returned to the yacht ... towards the evening we were at about 1 mile’s distance from three islets, of which the southernmost was the largest; five miles by estimation farther to northward we saw a mountainous country, but the shallows rendered (or render) it impossible for us to get near it; in almost every direction in which soundings were taken, we found very shallow water, ... so that at last we were forced to drop ... after sunset we therefore sent out the pinnace to take soundings, which found deeper water a long way S.W. ... we were very glad to sail thither with the yacht, and cast anchor in 81⁄2 fathom...
15 ... we set sail on a W. course, which took us into shallower water ... we therefore went over to S.W., ... we had lost sight of the land here, and found it impossible to touch at it or follow it any longer, owing to the shallows, reefs and sandbanks and also to the E. winds blowing here; on which account it was resolved and determined - in order to avoid such imminent perils as might ultimately arise if we continued to coast along the land any longer - to turn back and hold our course first for the Vleermuijs Eijlant; we therefore stood out to sea on a W. course ... having sailed 17 miles in 24 hours, kept west, and finding no bottom in 27 fathom.