Background - continued
20/3/1660 ... the return-fleet ... set sail, and the yacht* Erasmus went with it...
5, 6/4 [On 10/3 Herry and Doman with many of their people, the Caepmans, came to the Fort to treat for peace] ... insisting that we had been taking more and more of their land ... asking also, if they came to Holland, would they be allowed to do this?...
5/5 ... so that now we are at peace with ... the Goringayqas or Tobacco-thieves [error for ‘Caepmans’] ... and the Gorachouquas or Tobacco-thieves ...
27/5 ... the stable for the mounted outpost ... is now so far ready that it can be occupied [see Cavalry-Post*]
23/7 ... came ... messengers from the Chainouquas ... with news that their Chief was coming to barter a great quantity of cattle [came 4/8]
17-20/8 ... rebuilding the ramparts of the fort,* collapsed from the heavy rains ...
20/8 [water to be led to the Jetty,* as Sterthemius proposed; and as already suggested in the Remonstrantie*]
12/9 ... This week some Dutch apples, pears, quinces and medlars were grafted on some young forest-trees ... which will also be tried with lemons and oranges ...
13/9 ... the free burghers are now beginning eagerly to plant the vine-cuttings of which hundreds were given to them ...
27/9 [mention of] a certain other tribe named Hosaquas, of whom we had never heard, the real dacha-growers for the Hamcunquar ...
8/11 ... the Soaquas (a people without cattle ... mostly robbers) ... are to send us young horses ... and have brought two or three heads of such ... most beautifully striped but having such long ears that they look like asses [Zebras]
20/12 ... the wild almond trees [of hedge*] already growing with fair success...
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