The author relates that in the year 1710 it was resolved to send an embassy under Mr. Cornelius Bezuijen to Shah 'Alam Bahadur Shah on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. But in October of the same year that gentleman died after a lingering illness at Surat, where he had held the important post of Director of the Dutch factories in Gujarat and Hindustan. Some time previous to his death he recommended the Chief Merchant, Mr. Johan Josue Ketelaar, to be his successor both as Director of the Dutch factories and as Head of the proposed embassy. Mr. Bezuijen's burial is described at great length, He was buried in the tomb of the late Commissioner ~ General, Hendrik Adrian van Reede (.plied A.D. 1692). This tomb is still the most prominent monument of the Dutch cemetery locally known as Walandi Qabarstan) at Surat.

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