Background - continued
2/5/1698 The said English ships ... set sail ...
3/5 ... about noon came to the roads the English return-ship the Samson ... 40 guns and 115 men ... 1 dead on the journey, bringing 3 sick, having left Bengalen on January 28 last ...
5/5 ... the Unie set sail for Batavia ...
6/5 ... this day the Danish ship Prins Fredrik departed ...
8/5 ... all the return-ships set sail, namely the Gendt, Carthago, the Boor, the Sandloper, the Leck, Ysselmonde, the Berkel, the Schelling and Blois ...