Background - continued
8/2/1683 ... Charles and Prudent Mary having provided themselves with the necessary drinkingwater, their Captains came to take farewell of the Commandeur ... set sail ...
8/4 [arrival from Galle Hendrik Mouritz, Croonenburgh: latter badly in need of repair]
9/4 ... arrived the return-ship China ... from the bay of Gaele ...
13/4 ... anchored ... the flute the Chivetkat ... with rice for this place ...
30/4 [mention of lease of ‘the Company's pleasure-house Rustenburgh’]
6/5 [mention of ‘our little flute Baaren’]
11/5 ... reached the roads the new yacht* Hoogergeeste ... intended for the slave-traffic at Madagascar ...
19/5 ... reached the roads ... the flute* Westeramstel ...
30/5 ... Mevrouw Joanne van Ommeren, widow of the late ex-Governor-General ... went aboard the ship China to return home in her ...
31/5 ... late in the evening came to these roads from Bengal a little English ship called the Susannah ... request for refreshing and to take in water ... granted, but by the messenger it was insinuated to the colonists that they were unable to sell any refreshing whatever ...
1/6 ... the Ceylon return-ships ... set sail ...
6/6 ... arrived the return-ship Goudesteijn ... had sailed with 8 others named Huys te Spijk, Tidor, Schielant, Asia, Europa, Strijen, Java and the little yacht* Schiebroeck ... under the command of the Upper-Merchant ... Hendrik van Oudtshoorn ... from the Sunda Strait on March 25 ...
7/6 ... anchored in the roads ... Schielant ...
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