Background - continued
17/4/53 ... before daylight the ... return-fleet sailed, consisting of the 5 ships Parel, Hof van Zeelant, Princes Royael, Malacca, and Walvis....
14/5 ... 6 sheep ... to be set on Robben Island to see whether they can breed there [and repeated subsequent entries], as also we have already tried this with some dassies brought from Dassen Island....
27/5 ... lime-kiln to be made for the shells brought from Robben Island....
3/7 ... the old kraal to be prepared for a garden* ... also another piece of land ... next to the old garden....
6/8 [First use of the name ‘False Bay’, a casual mention as if the name was already current.]
13/9 ... lettuce ... the finest heads in the world....
16/11 ... cut the first cauliflower ... as fine and delicate as in the Fatherland....
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