Leondert Hussenlosch

c. 1695 – c. 1724

A Dutch employee of the Dutch East India Company who was marooned on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He wrote a diary until his presumed death. In January 1725, British sailors from the ship James and Mary discovered the castaway's tent and belongings, including the diary in Dutch. The British concluded that a Dutchman had been set ashore as a punishment for sodomy. They did not find a skeleton but they believed that the man had died of thirst. The diary was taken back to Britain. In 1726, the translated diary was first published under the title

• An authentick relation of the many hardships and sufferings of a Dutch sailor who was put on shore on the uninhabited Isle of Ascension by order of the commadore of a squadron of Dutch ships
• Sodomy punish'd
• The Just Vengeance of Heaven Exemplify'd. in a Journal Lately Found by Captain Mawson, ... All Wrote with His Own Hand, and Found Lying near the Skeleton