Willem, all having sailed from Batavia on November 20 last year together with the little flute Bunschoten ...
8/2 ... came the little flute Bunschoten ... from Batavia with rice and other provisions for the Cape ...
11/2 ... by the Hon. Commissioner Goske in Council it was resolved to send tomorrow some burghers and farmers by horse to the Hottentoos Hollandt to study the fertility, convenience, and situation of the same ...
16/2 Resolutions ... our State very probably again to be involved in a war ... the weak and indefensible state of the old small fort* ... the one bastion built of the new fortress, not yet enclosed at the back ... resolved to throw up some earthen breastworks or similar small redoubts, and keep a good watch at the coming of any foreigners, to prevent them from landing [mention of the letter from the XVII dated 20/11/67 as in item 15]
21/2 Resolutions ... to enclose the back of the western bastion ... with palisades and a wall of earth ...
24/2 ... About 9 in the morning the Hon. Isbrand Goske embarked, with the firing of the customary salutes, the burghers and soldiers all standing to arms [sailed 26/2]
2/3 ... anchored ... the flute* Sparendam, had sailed on October 13 ... bound for Ceylon, having lost on the journey 5 of the 170 souls aboard, and with only 3 sick ...
4/3 ... a smart ‘spiegelschip*’ sighted ... Damiate ... for Batavia ...
5/3 ... came sailing into the bay ... Gecroonde Vrede ... from Hoorn October 23 ...
6/3 ... the return-fleet, being the ships Vryheyt, Zuytpolsbroek, the Wapen van der Veer and the Hoff van Breda ... under the command of the Skipper Pieter Coopman (who at his arrival was deadly sick) ...
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