Background - continued
18/3/1676 ... the [return-] fleet set sail [with Goske].
20/3 ... letter received from Serjeant Lourens Visser in charge of the post at Hottentoos Holland ... 3 of our freemen who had gone inland to shoot sea-cows murdered near Groote Rivier [later ‘Breede R.’] by Gonnemas Hottentots or at least their dependants ...
26/3 ... a kraal of Souquas, called Hottentoos Obiquas but dependants of Gonnema ... murdered three freemen ... to despatch tomorrow Lieutenant Cruse with 50 soldiers, as many burghers, and a party of Hottentoos [returned 17/4 ‘having, to our regret, accomplished nothing’]
18/4 ... 4 ships sighted ... Asia, Tidor, Cortjene and the hooker* the Croonvogel ... left Duijns in England on January 18 ...
[26] A Savage at the Cape of Good Hope in Africa From item 35: the map is of course quite ridiculous, with the Cape shown as an island and the ostrich on apparently another, non-existent, island.
Auteursrechtelijk beschermd