Background - continued
19/3/1658.. This afternoon the return-fleet set sail ... Parel, Orangie, Malacca, Hector and Gecroonde Leeuw....
21/3 [Return of inland expedition* which had left 27/2: to Berg River only. Entry in journal for May 19] ‘a large lion sprang upon one of our men as they were sitting in a circle round a small fire ... and bit him in the right arm. The Serjeant ... shot it’
28/3 [arrived] Amersfoort, sailed October 14 ... from Vlie ... near the coast of Brazil took [250 slaves by dr 26/3] out of a Portuguese prize, all but 170 having died and many being sick ... most of them girls and small boys....
1/4 [dr mentions letter from XVII of October 9, 1657, ordering ships to sail homewards north-about*]
25/7 ... sighted ... the flute* Nieuwpoort ... left Texel ... April 16 with flute Leerdam (from which she became separated near the Line) with 175 men, none of whom had died but about 20 were suffering from scurvy....
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