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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 51. Chapters: Abel Tasman, Willem Barentsz, Cornelis de Houtman, Jacob Le Maire, Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, Sebald de Weert, Pieter Nuyts, Willem Janszoon, Johannes Ruysch, Joris Carolus, Adriaen Block, Alexandrine Tinne, Dirk Hartog, Simon van der Stel, Jacques l'Hermite, Cornelis de Bruijn, Isaq Schrijver, Jan van Ryen, Willem de Vlamingh, Maarten Gerritsz Vries, Willem Ysbrandtsz. Bontekoe, Willem Verstegen, Willem Schouten, Johan Nieuhof, Robert Jacob Gordon, Jakob Roggeveen, Cornelius Jacobsen May, Jacob Cornelisz. van Neck, Hendrik Brouwer, Jacob van Heemskerk, Frederick de Houtman, Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff, David Pietersz. de Vries, Dirck Gerritsz Pomp, Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout, Matthijs Quast, Jan Carstenszoon, Anton Willem Nieuwenhuis, Adriaan Stoop, Olivier van Noort, Francois Thijssen, Cornelis Nay, Juan Maria Schuver, Abraham Blauvelt, Joris van Spilbergen, Jan Rijp, Hendrikus Albertus Lorentz, Hendrick Christiaensen, Anton Colijn, Joos van Ghistele, Jacques Mahu, Gerrit de Veer. Excerpt: Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, GON, RNL, FRGS (2 April 1859 in Rotterdam - 11 August 1941 in The Hague, Netherlands) was a Dutch businessman, diplomat, world traveller, publicist, and philanthropist. He was a son of Hendrik Muller Sz., a Rotterdam-based Dutch businessman and politician, and Marie Cornelie van Rijckevorsel, member of another prominent Rotterdam based business family. Muller started his career as a businessman, trading with East and West Africa. In his mid-twenties he travelled to Zanzibar, Mozambique, and South Africa for business purposes, but showed himself a keen ethnographer as well, collecting ethnographic artifacts and writing reports about the societies and people he encountered on his way. In 1890, Muller retired from business for personal reasons, and went to Germany to study ethno...