Background - continued
29/4/1682 In the morning the return-ships ... ran out to sea ...
16/6 Resolutions [Specie and cargo brought by Burgh van Leijden for India and unloaded here to be distributed between China, Java, Silversteijn, Blauwe Hulcq]
20/6. Resolutions ... Captain of the [English] Joanna, wrecked 8 miles* East of the Cape and left sick at a kraal, to be brought here by waggon ... an Assistent*, a Serjeant and 10 to 12 men ... sent to salvage her cargo [later also Olof Bergh sent]
27/6 [104 sailors from her now in the town]