Returned to India, he witnessed Nader Shah's 1739 Sack of Delhi following the Battle of Karnal before leaving Bengal to settle in Batavia, Dutch East Indies in 1743. His last journey seems to have been a visit to Mount Ophir in Dutch Malacca in September of that year. Intending to return home to the Netherlands, he fell ill and died on 27 September 1745 at Batavia.