NOTE
that in our landings between 13° and 11° we have but two times seen black men or savages, who received us much more hostilely than those more to southward; they are also acquainted with muskets, of which they would seem to have experienced the fatal effect when in 1606 the men of the Duyffken made a landing here.
16 ... at noon we were in 10° 27’, having sailed 30 miles in 24 hours
This, effectively, locates them towards the middle of Torres Strait.
17 ... at noon we were in 8° 43’; towards the evening ... we saw from the main-topmast land N.E. of us, when we were in 8o 19’
Having reached the west coast of New Guinea, Carstensz then proceeds to set course north and west, heading for the latitude of 5°, in which Aru is situated and arrived back in the eastern Moluccas on the 23rd. Questioning the locals there was no word of the Arnhem.
June
8 Carstensz reached Ambon and, effectively, disappears from our knowledge apart from his report on the voyage, which discouraged further exploration.
Italicised material taken from: Jan Carstenszoon - The translation of the ‘Journael van Jan Carstensz. op de ghedaene reyse van Nova Guinea’, ed. in L.C.D. van Dijk, Twee togten naar de Golf van Carpentaria was partly taken from J.E. Heeres, The Part borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765. Leiden/London, 1899. Additional translations by Elise Reynolds and Marianne Roobol.