Background - continued
30/6/1689 ... the return-ships ... Oostersouburgh, Saamslag, Suydbeveland, Spierdijk and Mierop, with both the French prizes ... set sail ...
3/7 ... the English ship Nathanael set sail ... learned that with her went 5 soldiers missing from our garrison ...
5/7 ... Nathanael ... still below the Robben Island ... came ashore from her four English and one Portuguese ... rather risk their lives on shore here than sail with such a leaky ship ... only one meal a day ... pumping continually ...
11/7 ... two ships under full sail ... must anchor behind the Robben Island ...
12/7 ... being the Voetboog and the Land van Schouwen [outward]
25/7 ... comes to anchor the English Company's ship Chadois [Chandos], having sailed from the Theems on March 16 ... bound for Mombasa, 46 guns and 250 men including 120 soldiers ... 65 sick whom the Captain requested to bring ashore ... granted, as also his request to buy refreshing from the freemen ... shortly afterwards appears in the roads the ship Dregterland [outward] ... 68 dead during the voyage, including the skipper ... all crew sick except 15 or 16.
3/8 ... the ship Emenes given her despatch [homeward: sailed 5/8 as ‘little flute’]
22/8 ... comes here to anchor the ship Zalland [outward] ... 24 dead, 10 sick brought ashore ...
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