[1680]
General peace.
Background - from official documents in the archives
20/2 ... arrived ... Landt Schouwen, Europa, Schielandt, Tidoor, Asia and the hired ship Saint Andries ... all having sailed from Batavia on November 24 last year [sailed homeward, plus Sumatra, Tertholen from Ceylon, on 29/3]
9/3 Resolutions ... a hedge of growing thornbushes to be set around the Garden* ...
27/3 [Letters to Holland requesting permission for the Commandeur to undertake an expedition* to the Namaquas with 20 men]
20/6 [Letter from Holland] ... we see very little chance of being able to provide you with industrious farmers from here ...
3/7 ... arrived here ... the new little yacht* [‘jachtie’] Necombo ...
9/7 ... arrived here ... the newly-built yacht Jambi ...
21/10 Resolutions ... considered desirable to undertake the expedition* to the said Namaquas, the sooner the better, and to employ thereto as commander the Ensign Oloff Bergh ...
26/10 Resolutions ... resolved, contrary to the opinion of the Hon. Commandeur van der Stell, to allow the said Captain of the English ship [Surat Merchant for Bantam, ‘having lost 15 of his best sailors and carpenters, and with many sick’] to buy some refreshing from the freemen ... and to give him a carpenter from the ships now here, to be handed back at Bantam ...
1/12 ... arrived ... the yacht Craanvogell, having sailed from Holland on June 1 ... not one fit man on board ...
30/12 ... an English ship in a very miserable state coming from Mocha ... if the Captain requests it, allow him to buy refreshing from the freemen and take water freely ... neither he himself nor any of his officers or crew ... to enter the castle, nor even to approach it or pass near it ... no one to be ashore in the evening or by night ... and to make the sojourn of this inconvenient visitor yet more unpleasant [as ordered by Holland] resolved also to insinuate to the colonists by the messenger that no one is to sell sheep for less than fl. 18 each, and similarly greenstuffs and vegetables only at exorbitant prices ...
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