29 Johan Nieuhof
(See also items 2, 6, 8, 25.) From log kept by the Skipper of Pijl. Sailing not given, but through the Channel, and January 1 near Tenerife. Cape April 8 to 30, setting up ‘a little ship or shallop*’, Boogh, brought knocked-down. Madagascar, Comoros etc. for slaves. Nieuhof up a river in Comoros in Boogh and ashore in skiff, while Pijl waited at mouth. Nieuhof did not return, and after ‘two or three days’ Boogh reported to Pijl, and both back to the Cape for provisions, arriving December 17. January 1, 1673 Pijl sailed for Mauritius [DR], Boogh back to where Nieuhof and his party had been left: then no news of her for a long time, when it was discovered that the Mate had run off with her to Mozambique and sold her there. By orders from Holland Voorhout sent from the Cape May 22, 1676 [DR], back September 29 [DR] with slaves, but without news of Nieuhof.
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