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In the spring of 1778 H.G. Duurkoop was appointed Opperhoofd of the Dutch trading post on Deshima, for a second term. On June 16, H.G. Duurkoop embarks on the ship ’t Huys te Spijk to relieve the Opperhoofd A.W. Feith. Hendrik Godfried’s elder brother, Jan Andries Duurkoop, a retired soldier and a freeburgher well-known in Batavia at that time, joined him on this trip. During the voyage and after a short illness, the incoming chief Hendrik Godfried Duurkoop dies on July 27, 1778. The location at sea of the ship on that day is indicated on his gravestone: 26 degrees and 58 minutes north latitude, which is a little north of Okinawa.

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