30 Jan Pietersz. Cortemünde
His account, translated from MS, was published as ‘An Adventure at the Cape ...’, Cape Town 1952. He gives the dates of arrival and departure of his ship Oldenburgh in the Old Style*, and allowing for this they tally with those in the DR, from which the following is taken - the relatively few points of interest in his own account will be found in the Index under the respective headings.
dr 20/12 ... to our consternation it was reported that yesterday evening a certain burgher living behind the fortress here was so wounded with a rapier by the Upper-Surgeon of the Danish ship ... Jan Pietersz van Carteminden ... that the wound was very dangerous and could readily prove fatal [search for the culprit ordered].
[21/12 no trace. 24/12 sentries posted on the shores. 27/12 arrested: after dressing the wound he had made for Wouter Mostaert's house, obtained a disguise there, and had then walked round the back of the Fort towards the Salt River and hidden there in the scrub - his statement that he saw there ‘a herd of 50 to 60 elephants, rhinoceroses, tigers, lions, lynxes and wolves’ speaks more for his imagination than his reliability.]
dr 5/1/1673. In the morning the trial was held of the Danish Upper-Surgeon ... who was sentenced to be keelhauled on one of the ships of the Hon. Company now lying in the roads ...
6/1. At about 9 o'clock yesterday's sentence on the Danish delinquent was carried out on the hooker* the Goutvinck ... in the afternoon ... the Danish ship raised anchor and ran out to sea ...
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