[1658]
Commonwealth in England: death of Cromwell. Dutch war with Portugal continues, also Anglo-French war against Spain.
Background
7/1 The freemen who intended to support themselves by fishing and by extracting train-oil etc. on the islands and in the Saldanha Bay went there in the small old sloop [‘sloep’] Peguyn which had been sold to them ... [To sell to Company what this needs, may sell the rest to freemen and ships]
17/1 ... The jetty is so far ready that the Commander ... for the first time walked along the beams and boarded the skiff lying at the end of it....
5/3 [Hector, Orangie arrived homeward-bound. Letter sent home querying whether anchorage* should not now be charged.]
6/3 ... The remaining ships Parel, Malacca and Gecroonde Leeuw safely reached the anchorage ...
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