Chistopher Fryke had a varied and adventurous career. Though he was a surgeon, his chief desire was to travel and see strange countries, for which he came to Amsterdam in the hope of undertaking some voyage to the East Indies as a surgeon. He served as a surgeon in the Ternate and later Europa in the course of which he contrived to visit every centre of Dutch trade in Asia. Christopher Schweitzer of Wurtenberg in Germany being keen on voyages volunteered for the Dutch East India Company's service as a steward, to later obtain promotion and a wide variety of employment. He was later made Secretary or Overseer of the clerks, at the East India House. Here he remained till the expiration of his contract.
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