Background - continued
22/5/1676 [Sailed Ceylon, Voorsigtigheyt homeward; Macassar, Utrecht, Briel, Muyderberg, Grave for Batavia; Voorhout to Madagascar for slaves]
8/6 ... the redoubts Kyckuyt and Keerdekoe ... threaten to collapse ... resolved to raze them and rebuild with stone...
3/9 ... this day entirely completed the last bastion of the new fort ...
1/11 [Instructions for Captain Dircq Smient and Lieutenant Jeronimus Cruse for expedition against Gonnema]
17/11 ... came a smart ship ... Nieuw Middelburg ... another ship sighted ... the Vryheyt ... sailed July 18 last ...
18/11 ... among those in her the Hon. Jacob de Werelt as Chief Mine-Director, especially for employment on the coast of Sumatra ...
19/11 ... arrived at noon Captain Smient ... leaving behind the Lieutenant Cruse, who set out for the Saldanhiabaay with 24 men ... to surprise a certain Hottentot Captain there ...
23/11 The Hon. Governor rode ... early morning fully an hour from the fort to meet the awaited expedition [Cruse]
28/11 ... [letter sent to Hottentots Holland post] to send two Dutch with the same number of Hottentots ... to the place where the miners worked previously, to bring some mineral from there ...
29/11 ... at dusk to our joy arrived the little yacht* Voorhout from the island Madagascar ... bringing slaves to the number of 254, of whom 22 had been lost by death during the voyage ...
30/11 ... brought ashore in the afternoon ... 257 including babies ... given clothing and good refreshing ...
1/12 ... the ship Nieuw Middelburg ... set sail ...
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