Background - continued
13/3/1698 ... all the [return-] fleet set sail ...
4/4 ... the Danish ship Princesse Louise towed to the roads ... bound for Trancquebare ...
11/4 ... towards evening came in ... the ship the Unie bound for Batavia, and the French vessel L'Estoile d'Orient [suspected of being a pirate, but her Pass* found in order]
19/4 ... the French ship the Philpeau arrived towards noon ...
25/4 ... the little flute* the Sandloper [homeward] ... arrived at the roads by night ... because of the calm the little flute Boor towed to the roads, followed by three English return-ships, namely Carolus Secundus, Captn. Derreil, 60 guns and 180 men, left Bombay January 28; the Scepter, Captn. Baarlo, 36 guns and 150 men, also from there; and Sidny, Captn. Scheffer, 30 guns and 80 men, this last from Bengalen ... the said English ships having had no dead or sick ...
26/4 ... arrived the ship Schellag [later ‘Schelling’ and ‘Shellak’] ... from Galen ...
29/4 ... the two French ships sailed ...
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