Background - continued
13/4/1685 ... both of the English ships ... set sail for Surat ...
16/4 [mention of ‘the Company's Orchard Rustenburgh alias Rondebosje’]
18/4 [arrived French St. Anthonis from Surat]
19/4 [arrived Emmenes, Eenhoorn, yacht* Bantam, flute* Adringhem, Stavenis, with van Reede as Admiral* and Commissioner. He, with Councillor de St. Martin and Upper-Merchant Banchem came ashore into the Fort]
19/4 ... imprisoned Hottentots ... four condemned to death for the murder of a freeman's servant* ...
27/4 ... the imprisoned and condemned Hottentots ... were beaten to death with sticks by their own tribe, in the presence of their Captains ...
28/4 ... arrived the two return-ships the Beurs and the yacht* Jamby ... the French ship again set sail and at last got out to sea ...
2/5 ... Emmenes and the Eenhoorn received their despatches ...
4/5 ... arrived the return-ship Saint Maartinsdyck ... this evening the flute* Stavenesse reached the open sea ...
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