hutch, are also to be put on the said [Robben] Island.... agriculture, sealing, and all other necessary work could be done much more cheaply by slaves ... which could be readily obtained and brought from Madagascar, in one journey with rice....
6/4 [provisions short: ‘resolved ... to have penguins fetched for the daily fare’]
25, 26/5 ... gardens,* now fully 4 morgen* in extent ...
31/5 ... launched the sampan built here, 32 feet long and 8 feet beam, for carrying salt, wood, cow-manure etc.... [first vessel built]
11/6 ... began for the first time to lay the bricks made here ... fine red bricks, just like Leyden bricks....
15/8 ... Vlielandt arrived, sailed May 19 last from Texel ... news of the peace with the republic of England, proclaimed ... a day before her departure, for which the Almighty be eternally praised.
7/10 Instructions of XVII ... we dispose and order by these that the ships of the Company sailing from these lands to the Indies are to touch at the said Cape and the fort Goede Hoope there [time spent there not to count against duration of passage for the calculation of the premium for fast passages, and ships passing not to receive any premium]
9/10 ... the fortification-works are now completed....
16/11 ... It is to be wished that we had a few more horses* than the two we have at present....
16/12 ... busy threshing our newly-reaped wheat....
28/12 ... from the wheat threshed we gained only about as much as the amount sown ... we shall not be able to produce any grain here because of the strong S.E. wind....
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