Background - continued
22/4/1665 ... the return-fleet set sail and by the evening was already out of sight ...
23/4 ... Amersfoort came to the roads ... already 39 dead had been set overboard ...
24/4 ... more than 80 sick, nearly all of scurvy ...
30/5 Heavy rain last night, causing the breastworks on the bastion The Elephant to collapse again, as is the yearly custom ...
8/6 Today the Commandeur ... sited the new Castle which our Lords and Masters order built here ... 5 large bastions ... around the old fort [entailing the demolition of] a row of new burgher-houses ... both our limekilns, the old hospital, and a good part of the Company's fine Garden ...
9/6 ... hookers* ... Ape, left Texel February [blank] with 16 sailors ... Echoorn, sailed December 14 from the Maas ... with 15 men ... news by letter of January 30 from our Lords and Masters that the English were at war with us though without any formal declaration ...
17/8 ... a large ship sighted ... with great joy found to be the Hon. Commandeur Isbrant Gosken, coming out in the ship Nieuw Middelburgh ...
26/8 In the afternoon the Hon. Commandeur Gotsken called the Council together ... after much deliberation on His Honour's proposal ... resolved that the new Fortress ... shall be set 60 roods eastwards of this present fort [he sailed on September 2]
20/9 ... a large ship ... red English flag* astern ... could not reach the roads ... sent a little skiff* with 4 men to the jetty ... the Royal Charles, left Surat on March 11 last ... as they knew nothing of the war we entertained them well, giving them at their departure two baskets of Cape fruits and a Persian flask of French wine for their Captain ...
21/9 ... came the Captain's brother with two other English to salute and thank the Commandeur ... made prisoners [flute* Loosduynen, Bruydegom and a shallop* prevented by calms from boarding Royal Charles, and all four drifted out to sea. Exchange of cannon-fire with the flute, little effect: she too slow, chase abandoned]
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