placed on him, and the money was returned. In 1640 he married Anna van Driel, who died that same year while giving birth to Nuyts' third son, also called Pieter. In 1649 he married his third (or perhaps fourth) and final wife, Agnes Granier, who was to outlive him. Death Nuyts died on 11 December 1655 and was buried in a churchyard in Hulst. The tombstone remained until 1983, when it was destroyed during renovations of the church. After his funeral it was discovered that he had collected more taxes from his estates than he had handed over to the authorities; his son Pieter eventually repaid his father's debts. It was the younger Pieter who also arranged the posthumous publication of his father's treatise Lof des Elephants, in 1670 — a single known copy of which still exists, in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague. Bibliography Lof des Elephants (In Praise of the Elephant) – 1634 (1670) Beschrijvinge van Riviere Nylus in Aegypten (Description of the River Nile in Egypt) – 1635 Notes References Further reading External links Biography of Flinders Ranges Research 1598 births 1655 deaths Colonial governors of Dutch Formosa 17th-century Dutch explorers Explorers of South Australia Explorers of Western Australia People from Hulst People from Middelburg, Zeeland Leiden University alumni Mayors in Zeeland Sailors on ships of the Dutch East India Company Maritime history of the Dutch East India Company Early modern Netherlandish cartography