Background - continued
1/2/1697 ... all the said English ships, nine [? eight] in number, departed for Saint Helena or India, so that the roads are now empty of ships ...
24/5 ... at dawn it was found to our sorrow that by the heavy storm not only was the frigate* the Swarte Leeuw ... completely broken up and driven ashore, as also 15 longboats* and 11 skiffs* [also at Salt River Oosterland, Waddinxveen; and other losses]
1/7 [683 in ‘garrison*’, including those in the galliot* Amy and in the Jupiter and the Dolphyn ... in Noordgouw 43, Standvastigheyt 32, frigate* the Soldaat 63]
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