Jacob Cats wrote a pamphlet about the couple, which was sold in 50.000 copies. On her father's return to Java she made a good marriage to Georgius Candidius, a Calvinist minister, and accompanied him to the Dutch trading base in Formosa (Taiwan), where she died, aged 19, in 1636. Under the rules governing the VOC's Asian possessions, Saartje Specx, as a part-Asian, had no right to live in the Netherlands. Instead she was severely beaten in front of the Town Hall of Batavia. When the Governor heard of this, a contemporary writer attested, 'his face turned white and his chair and the table trembled.' Coen had Cortenhoeff beheaded and had to be dissuaded from having Saartje drowned. There she fell in love with 15-year-old Pieter Cortenhoeff, a standard-bearer in the VOC army, and was found making love to him in Coen's private apartment. In 1629, aged 12, she was living at Batavia in Java under the protection of Jan Coen, governor of the Dutch East Indies. Saartje (Sara in English) was born at the Dutch trading base on the island of Hirado. or guns and sorcery.REVIEWS:“A delightfully Weird pulp tale that could easily sit on a shelf alongside Leiber, Vance and Moorcock.Saartje Specx (1617–1636) was the daughter of Jacques Specx, governor of the North Quarter of the Dutch East India Company's (VOC's) Asian trading empire, and a Japanese concubine. Only one thing’s for sure: by the time this is over, there will be blood.Not to mention sex and drugs. Add a murdered merchant, the deadly Mothers of the House of Jade, the rivalry of gods and the machinations of a rising Dark Lord bent on conquest, and things start to get out of hand. When Gorel forms an uneasy alliance – and ménage à trois – with an Avian spy and a half-Merlangai thief, things only start to get complicated. But nothing is simple for Gorel of Goliris. Synopsis: A legend tells of the Mirror of Falang-Et: a magical object in the city of the frog tribes, which can tell all manner of truths.There is only one truth Gorel of Goliris – gunslinger, addict, touched by the Black Kiss – is interested in: finding a way back home, to the great empire from which he had been stolen as a child and from which he had been flung, by sorcery, far across the World.It started out simple: get to Falang-Et, find the mirror, find what truth it may hold.

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