: The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island #IndiaNEWS Leendert Hasenbosch, a Dutch East India Company soldier, was marooned on Ascension Island as punishment

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The diary of a Dutch East India Company soldier who was marooned on a desert island #IndiaNEWS
Leendert Hasenbosch, a Dutch East India Company soldier, was marooned on Ascension Island as punishment for sodomy in 1725. Abandoned on an uninhabited island, he kept a diary of his days as a castaway and his struggle for survival.This diary was later recovered and published as Sodomy Punish’d: Being a True and Exact Relation of what befell to one Leondert Hussenlosch (London, 1726), surviving in a single copy in the British Library. It is a rare first-hand account of the lived experience and hardships of a gay man at a time when sexual relationships between men were punishable by death.Leendert Hasenbosch spent his first month on the island searching for water and praying for rescue. Lonely, he wrote in his diary and tried to keep a bird as a pet but it died.May 5, 1725: “…They put on shore with me a cask of water, two buckets an old frying pan &c. I made a tent on the beech�?.May 8, 1725: “…I trust God Almighty will deliver me by some ship that may touch here�?.May 11, 1725: “I sat down very discontented, being almost dead with thirst�?.May 12, 1725: “This afternoon put some onions, pease and calavances into the ground near my tent to try if they would grot�˒[��[�HM̍K�[�����^�Y[��Y[X�[�][ۜ�[���]X][ۋ����XY[ܙH

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