[1699]
General Peace.
Background-from official documents in the archives
8/1 ... comes in a Danish flute* called Charlotte AEmilia to her companion Prins fredrik in the roads...
22/1 ... towards evening arrived the Stad Ceulen and the Drie Kroonen, with which came the Hon. Extraordinary Councillor and Governor WILHELM ADRIAAN VAN DER STEL with his family [in Ceulen, and took over 11/2] ... left Texel on September 22 last year ...
25/1 ... their sick taken ashore, 44 in number ...
30/1 ... quite early came to the roads the ship Eijklenburg ...
31/1 ... came in [held up by calm at Robben Island overnight] ... the English return-ship Faam, October 12 from Madras, 38 guns and 110 men ... no dead or sick ...
4/2 ... the said Danish return-ship ... now set sail ...
7/2 ... two Dutch ships [of 22/1] set sail ...
8/2 ... the said frigate* Eyklenburg ... set sail ... the aforesaid English return-ship the Faam ... also weighed anchor, but since her compatriot America, 24 guns and few men, coming from Borneo via Batavia ... at that moment entered the bay, she ... reanchored ..