 When his journal was published in 1646 , it was accompanied by an engraving which is now known to have been copied after one of the dodos in the Flemish painter Roelant Savery 's " Crocker Art Gallery sketch " . Since Bontekoe was shipwrecked and lost all his belongings after visiting Réunion in 1619 , he may not have written his account until he returned to Holland , seven years later , which would put its reliability in question . He may have concluded in hindsight that it was a dodo , finding what he saw similar to accounts of that bird . 
 When his journal was published in 1646 , it was accompanied by an engraving which is now known to <a href='been_done' title='1'><mark>have</mark></a> been copied after one of the dodos in the Flemish painter Roelant Savery <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>" Crocker Art Gallery sketch " . Since Bontekoe was shipwrecked and lost all his belongings after visiting Réunion in 1619 , he may not <a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>have</mark></a> written his account until he returned to Holland , seven years later , which would put its reliability in question . He may <a href='been_done' title='4'><mark>have</mark></a> concluded in hindsight that it was a dodo , finding what he saw similar to accounts of that bird . 
When his journal was published in 1646 , it was accompanied by an engraving which is now known to done been copied after one of da dodos in tdaFlemish painter Roelant Savery  " Crocker Art Gallery sketch " . Since Bontekoe was shipwrecked and lost all his belongings after visiting Réunion in 1619 , he may not done written his account until he returned to Holland , seven yrs later , which would put its reliability in question . He may done concluded in hindsight that it was a dodo , finding what he saw similar to accounts of that bird .