Cape Good Hope 1652-1702

Background - continued

26/3/1686 ... the French ships l'Oyseau and la Maligne set sail ... and with them the Portuguese ship Saint Anthoni ...

15/4 ... the return fleet set sail and reached the open sea [no names given]

8/5 Resolutions ... certain Portuguese arriving here today informed the Hon. Commandeur of the pitiable mishap on April 16 last by the stranding of their ship between Cape Agulhas and False Bay ... resolved as far as possible, and as far as the orders of our Lords and Masters allow, to help them ... the Hon. Coy's Hospital,* by God's grace empty, as a lodging ... provide them with the necessary sustenance on payment ...

11/5 Resolutions ... the Captain ... and other officers of the wrecked ship Nra Senora de los Milagros ... requesting to be assisted during the time they remain here ... resolved to grant them this ... and to permit them to go to the Fatherland with the daily-awaited ships of the second sending [afterships*] ... informed the Council that three Ambassadors from the King of Siam ... had sailed with them, that the oldest had died soon after the wreck ... and the other two had set off alone ... presumed that they had lost their way ... resolved to send a Serjeant with six soldiers as soon as possible to rescue them ...

17/5 ... about noon arrived safely to anchor in the roads the ships Oosterland and Jambi [outwards]

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21/5 ... foot and horsemen sent out to seek for the wrecked and abandoned Siamese ... towards noon came to the roads ... the Beurs ... in the afternoon the Siamese Ambassadors were entertained to dinner ...

21/5 Resolutions ... resolved to grant them the requested thousand Rxd., and as a gift coloured silks [‘allegies’] and other small things for clothing, as also their sustenance while they are here ...

27/5 ... at three in the afternoon came to anchor in the roads the long-awaited yacht* Eemland ... sailed from Pallicatte on February 22 last ...

5/6 ... the ship Couverden arrived [outwards]

6/6 ... came to anchor here the little hooker* 't Hoefijser [outwards] ... followed by the little flute* Klaverblad [ditto]

6/6 Resolutions [10 soldiers, 3 horses etc. lent to the Siamese Ambassadors to go in search of their chief and some of his followers who had remained behind]

8/6 ... Oosterland set sail ...

8/6 Resolutions [Miners working at Witteboomen report negative results, and suggest their transfer to Sumatra: investigated]

13/6 This night came in the ship Sillida, having sailed from Batavia on March 10 ... the Skipper ... died five days ago ... the ship the Krygsman in sight since this morning ... the ship Emeland unable to get out of the bay because of contrary wind ...

14/6 ... in the afternoon came to anchor the flute* the Krygsman ...

16/6 ... came to the roads the yacht* Spierdijk ...

21/6 ... this morning the ship Beurs set sail ...

22/6 ... the little hooker* the Klaverblad ... put to sea ...

23/6 ... arrived here in the roads the little flute Bronste [outwards] ... hardly had she anchored than the ship the Vryheid came in under full sail [outwards]