Jan 26, 2014· When in the course of 1889, the Amir of Makkah [6] took measures to stop the shipping pool practice of controlling the prices for the transportation of pilgrims, van der Chigs committed suicide on the 2 nd of October 1889 and was buried in the European Cemetery located outside the wall south of Jeddah. He would appear to have been the fore-runner in business of the later Dutch firms associated ...
