Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular books in which the Dutch seventeenth century public delighted and it continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Born in 1587 Willem Yshrantsz Bontekoe was a Dutchman who traveled to the East-Indias from 1619 to 1625. His journey took him to various places in the Indonesian Island, Macau, China, and Iaiwam. Written in a light and lively style this book is the journal kept by him during his journey. Each place that he stopped by is described as also is gtiven a shapshot of the daily like of the inhabitants. That time being the eva of the spread of colonies, Bontekoe was witness to a fair number of vaval and land operation which he does not miss to describe.