Editing Abel Tasman (section)

===Later life===
On 2 November 1644, Abel Tasman was appointed a member of the Council of Justice in [[Batavia (region)|Batavia]]. He went to Sumatra in 1646, and in August 1647 to Siam (now [[Thailand]]) with letters from the company to the King. In May 1648, he was in charge of an expedition sent to [[Manila]] to try to intercept and loot the Spanish silver ships coming from America, but he had no success and returned to Batavia in January 1649. In November 1649, he was charged and found guilty of having in the previous year hanged one of his men without trial, was suspended from his office of commander, fined, and made to pay compensation to the relatives of the sailor. On 5 January 1651, he was formally reinstated in his rank and spent his remaining years at Batavia. He was in good circumstances, being one of the larger landowners in the town. In 1653, he retired; at that time he owned 288 acres of land in Batavia and captained a small cargo ship, of which he was a part-owner.<ref name=teara/>

In April 1657, Tasman wrote his [[will and testament]], describing himself as ill but not bedridden.<ref name=teara/> Tasman died at Batavia on 10 October 1659 and was survived by his second wife and a daughter by his first wife. His property was divided between his wife and his daughter. In his will, he left 25 guilders to the poor of his village, [[Lutjegast]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.history-nz.org/discovery1.html |title=Abel Janszoon Tasman – New Zealand in History – Holland 1603–1659 | first=Robbie | last=Whitmore |publisher=history-nz.org |archive-date=22 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181022074305/http://history-nz.org/discovery1.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Although Tasman's pilot, [[Frans Jacobszoon Visscher|Frans Visscher]], published ''Memoir concerning the discovery of the South land'' in 1642,<ref>A translation of part of Visscher's memoir may be read on pp. 24–27 of Andrew Sharp, The voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman, Oxford: Clarendon, 1968, p. 82, n. 1.</ref> Tasman's detailed journal was not published until 1898.  Nevertheless, some of his charts and maps were in general circulation and used by subsequent explorers.<ref name= Quanchi/> The journal signed by Abel Tasman of the 1642 voyage is held in the Dutch National Archives at [[The Hague]].<ref>Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Aanwinsten Eerste Afdeling, nummer toegang 1.11.01.01, inventarisnummer 121</ref>