With one million men who sailed on VOC ships to the east, what female companionship did they have?

The women can be divided into

1. European
2. Mesticos - a descendant of European man and an Asian woman
3. Swarte - Asian woman

In the book In Between, there is a good description with regards to the VOC conquest of Colombo in Ceylon on May 1656: "The Capture of Portuguese territory provided the servants and soldiers of the VOC with a welcome prize from a personal point of view: namely, 'half-caste' women, as well as a number of semi-Christianized or Christianized 'black women' who had some familiarity with European ways. ..... a large number of widows and unmarried women mainly mestices or half caste women .... were available in the city as marriage partners .... within a few months 150 marriages were recorded"

Bibliography
Michael Roberts, Ismeth Raheen and Percy Colin-Thome: People in between: The Burghers and the Middle Class in the Transformation within Sri Lanka