Background - continued
31/3/1659 ... the ship Aernhem and the flutes Ulisses and Loenen set sail for Batavia....
1/4 ... The Hon. van Almonde set sail for Batavia with the Paerel, Hector and Cortenhoff; and the galliot* Zuylen left for the island of Saint Helena....
1/5 ... the free farmers and burghers ... to be formed to a company of musketeers ... with a serjeant, two corporals and a drummer....
2/8 [Frontier Hedge* decided on, 4/8 sited, 9/8 started: three watch-houses to be built]
19/8 ... work on the protective fence proceeding well ...
25/8 The framework of one of the watch-houses [Kyckuyt] was ... placed on a high dune at the seashore, to close the passage between the Salt River and the beach ...
26, 27/8 ... The masons were set to work on the second watch-house ... being named Keert de Koe, lying between the Salt River and the fresh Liesbeek River ... a good 340 roods from the watch-house Kyckuyt, the Salt River flowing between them ... The free miller Cornelissen Mostert has begun to build a ... watermill, as the horse-mill is unusable ...
[24/9, 25/9, etc. to 12/3/60 see in item 10]
30/9 ... the Commander went out early ... to mark off the site for the third of the watchtowers ... he named it Hout den Bul ...
5/10 ... sighted ... the Malacca ... had sailed from the Vlie on May 29 with 352 paid men, of whom 36 had died and about another 30 were sick and were brought ashore ...
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