Background - continued
18/11/1696 ... in the afternoon ... the ship Berkel and the aforesaid ship the Samson ... set sail ...
15/12 [Letter to Batavia: the 5 English ships carried off 12 Servants of the Company, 6 convicts, 2 sailors of Geelvink]
26/12 ... an English ship seen sailing in ...
28/12 ... the said little English ship arrived ... about midday to the roads, named America, 26 guns, 40 men ... September 19th last from Bombay, now coming from Galen, without dead or sick on the journey ...