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08.07.2015

The Dutch of the VOC, while drinking from a well, are attacked by mad women

C. Decker and J. Kip.
Bad encounter: The Dutch of the VOC, while drinking from a well, are attacked by mad women in Gentynen, Coromandel, 1661
Printed in  'Wouter Schouten’s travels into the East Indies’, 2nd ed.
Netherlands (1708)
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The Coromandel Coast is in southern India. Where Gentynen is I have no idea.