Background - continued
8/6/1683 ... the Susannah having provided herself sufficiently with water ... and being ready to sail, we sent a short little letter by her to our Lords and Masters ...
10/6 ... anchoring in these roads the returnships Asia and Strijen, the former so leaky that 4 pumps must be continually manned ...
13/6 Towards noon ... reached the roads ... the little yacht* Schiebroeck ...
15/6 ... resolved to unload the said return-ship Asia sufficiently to be able to find the leak, her cargo to be loaded provisionally into the little flute* Baren and the Company's large sailing-shallops* ...
22/6 [cargo of Asia] to be put into the flute* Wester Amstel ... and her cargo to be transferred into the little flute Baaren ... to be taken to Batavia ... Azia and Wester Amstel to join the return-fleet homewards ...
28/6 ... The Hon. Commandeur, accompanied by the Hon. Majoor St Martin, rode out to the wood [? Hout Bay: back on the following day]
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