Background - continued
12/3/1655 [Mention of the desertion of ‘a Madagascar slave*’]
13/3 [Mention of wood from the forest for ‘the sloop here on the stocks’, about 52 × 15 × 6 feet]
18/3 ... the said ships arrived safely in the roads, one being the Wapen van Amsterdam... which had left the Vlie on October 20 last.... The other was the yacht* Domburgh ... sailed on November 20 from Wielingen....
31/3 ... the said yacht set sail, and we also gave those of the Wapen van Amsterdam their despatch.... [Delayed by wind until 2/4]
2/4 ... the yacht Koukercken came tacking into the roads... no sick and having had only two dead, but ... scurvy began to appear among the crew, so that at once cabbages, carrots, water-lemons and other greenstuffs were sent aboard.
3/4 ... there arrived safely in the roads the ships Provintie, with the Hon. Sterthemius, Councillor of the Indies ... sailed November 18 from Zelant ... had lost only 7 men on the voyage; Phenix ...; Blommendael ...; Coningh David and Maeght van Enckhuysen....
7/4 ... we went a little way inland with the Hon. Sterthemius to see the encampments of the Hottentots....
9/4 ... came to the roads ... the yacht* Cabeljauw, sailed February 11 from Batavia with stores for here and Mauritius, and then to go on to Ceylon....
10/4 ... the galliot* Tulp, which had left Saint Helena on March 10, arrived outside the bay, bringing us back two horses* [overcarried from Batavia].... We therefore still urgently need another 6 or 8 horses....
11/4 ... arrived safely in the roads the yacht Der Goes....
12/4 ... [arrived] Prins Willem, sailed from Zelant on January 1 ... having lost only 3 persons during the voyage, and exceptionally having no sick aboard....
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