#oldverse

1650 CE -----Batavia;

There was a stall where an old couple sat selling coconut water to people in the busy Sunda Kelapa Harbor. A young girl was helping them, scraping the fruit’s meat after its water emptied by the thirsty buyers. An hour after the noon, they ran out of coconuts to sell, so the couple left the harbor.

But the girl remained. She busied herself by watching ships coming and leaving the harbor; she always liked seeing all the passengers and merchants from foreign lands. Most of the ships were coming from places across nusantara: Timor, Sumatera, Kalimantan, Selebes, Banda, Malaka, but some came from northern lands like China, or western lands like India, Arab and Europe.