Background - continued
12/5/1669 ... Wapen van der Goes, Loosduijnen ... given their despatches [but held up by wind at Robben Island, sailed 14/5]
14/6 ... at the ronde bosie ... the vineyard is flourishing lustily ... at the Coy's schuer the folk are busy with threshing ...
8/7 [Report of Fiscaal* Cretser on Saldanha Bay] ... the watering-place held by 3 men ... marker there with the arms of the East-India Company ... and Jutten Island ... at Hoeties Bay with guard of two men [etc.]
25/8 ... appears from Patria the fine ship the Vrijheyt ... put to sea April 30 with 323 men [including two miners: five more arrived in Polaenen on 19/9]
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