Giles Milton
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first heard May 2026
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They tied him to a stake, got the horrendous white ants and put them into his wounds.
So this, of course, was an age of great brutality.
Everyone was brutal.
And when I read that, the fact that he recorded it so matter-of-factly in his diary truly shocked me.
And when one realises that the Dutch were even more brutal than the English, no one comes out well out of this period of history.
It was remarkably brutal.
They get intelligence at one point that Nathaniel Courtauld is intending to leave Run Island and go to one of the other Banda Islands, where he hears there's a lot of unrest amongst the native population.
And he thinks this could herald the beginnings of a general uprising against the Dutch.
So it's a sort of vitally important moment for him.
And so he takes the risk, really, the very great risk in October 1620.
He's been on the island for like four years to try and cross the channel of water to the next island and find out what's taking place.
This is to prove an absolutely fatal mistake.
He sets off at night with his boy William, as he was called.
His boy William is his son or his sort of cabin boy?
It's a sort of cabin boy come slave servant who's helping him.
Man servant, really, or boy servant.
Williams always have the rough end of things on Empire.
It's a very tragic story.
So the two of them get into their rowing boat.
They're rowing out across the open water and the Dutch have laid an ambush.
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