Background - continued
28/4/1676 ... three ships ... Ceylon, Alexander and the Voorsigtigheyt left Batavia February 9 ... At noon the ships from the Fatherland received their despatches [as listed 18/4]
29/4 ... were out of sight ...
30/4 ... Towards evening anchored ... the ship Macassar ... left the Duijns on January 18 ... 200 men, of whom 31 must be given dead to the sea, and 26 brought into our hospital ...
3/5 Early in the morning ... arrived the ship the Stadt Grave ...
4/5 Early in the morning found anchored in the roads ... Stigt van Utrecht ...
5/5 ... at nightfall arrived the ships Muyderberg and Den Briel ...