According to the VOC’s Instructions to Tasman in 1644, Janszoon discovered 220 miles of coast from 5 to 13 degrees southern latitude, but found "that vast regions were for the greater part uncultivated, and certain parts inhabited by savage, cruel black barbarians who slew some of our sailors, so that no information was obtained touching the exact situation of the country and regarding the commodities obtainable and in demand there".