To brother-in-law at Geneva. On family; botany; Bantam 1680-1708, & Dutch in Bantam.

Incipit: "Le long sejours que jay fait aux Indes Orientales .. ." On China: teas, porcelain, silk; Bantam (leaves 15-34): general description, manners, court, mechanical arts, medicine, etc. China-Batavia trade (leaf 36). Beginning of treatise on the art of keeping healthy (leaves 37-38). Rough notes on plants? leaf 39 verso. Written in unknown hand A.

Incipits: "Les Plantes que je nomme ainsi, a cause de l'affinite..."

"Comme cette Classe de plantes, a une grande affinite..."

Covers voyage Batavia to Surat; general description of inhabitants, etc., of Surat leaves 10v-23r; events there to March, 23v-24v; note on news from Persia, 25r (on item 9 paper).

Covers warfare and politics January-February.

Covers voyage Surat to Bantam.

Covers voyage Batavia-Malacca October 17-November 22; Malacca? (little description); Malacca?-Volta (on the Ougli) December 15-January 25, 1725; OugliBatavia March 4-May 1, 1725. Illustrated: pilot's views of two sets of silo-and-dome [pagodas?]. leaf [10] Table Meteorologique (weather and position log) October 27, 1724-May 1, 1725. leaves [11-13] [Followed by 1 blank]

Covers voyage Batavia-Sumatra-Padang June 3-25, 1726; Padang (little description); Padang-Bengal August 10-September 29; Bengal-Batavia February 10-April 21, 1727. [Followed by 1 blank]

Covers voyage Batavia-Ceylon June 5-July 7; Ceylon-Bellafora-Chinchora August 3-30; Chinchora-Batavia November 3-December 15, 1727.

Covers voyage Batavia-Trinquemale-Najapatnam February 18-April 29; Najapatnam (leaves 6-7); Najnapatnam-Krakatoa June 9-July 11, 1728. Illustrated: marginal drawing leaf 5v. [Followed by 2 stubs]

Covers voyage on the Dutch East Indiaman Valkenisse: Batavia-Cape of Good Hope-Grand Banks of Newfoundland-Amsterdam November 1, 1728-June 26, 1729. Breaks off with "Le 27,". Some small sheets bound in:

Leaf 4:"Remarques" memos; and list of Dutch ships (or places)

Leaf 6:Illustrated: pencil drawing of lettice-family leaves

Leaf 12:"Du Cap a Batavia" longitude and latitude from day 3 to 30

Incipit: Cette noire Trahison fut projettee desja en 1734 par un Lieutenant des Chinois nomme Niloco... Introduction; and Journal September 26-November 14, 1740. On short paper.

Incipit: Le 27 dis le grand matin le vent tourna ... Another version of Auguste 27 in 18b. With revisions.

Incipit: Monsieur. Comme je me trouve hereusement...

Includes a hope that when he returns in 1727 he can communicate his botanical observations to the Society.

"Route de la Comete qui a paru a la fin d'octobre de 1723, et observee sur mer, entre le 10e et le 17e degree de Latitude Nord pres de la Cote Orientale de l'Arabie heureuse, tous les soirs entre 7 et 9 heures." Draft report of the sight tnl;. Fnr. "...e ebaque endroit marque sur la Carte". [Followed by 1 blank leaf]

Brief notes of battles, Dutch diplomacy, in India 1707-1713. Includes daily details Jauary 3, 1712-January 23, 1713. [Followed by 1 blank leaf]

Details of reception of Ambassador Ketelaer at Agra (?) 14 [October 1712?] and relations with Emperor to July 29 [1713?], abridged from the Ambassador's "Relation." Includes court politics, rebellions, etc. [Followed by 1 blank leaf]

General geographical description. Includes description of our boat ascending the Ganges; Volta, Chinchora and the Dutch quarter.