Background - continued
3/7 ... all reached the open sea, as also the English ship Bedford and the frigate* Peter and Paul ...
1/8 ... in the afternoon the Hon Governor ... rode above the Company's Garden, and there visited the Company's corn-mill ...
5/9 ... an English vessel named Mountague arrived in the bay ... 30 guns and 110 heads, with no dead or sick, left London April 12 ... bound for Suratte ...
6/9 ... arriving this morning ... the English ship named Frederik, Captn Wins, left the river Theems May 13 ... 28 guns and 85 men ...
14/9 ... the Liefde [arrived 28/8] and the two English ships set sail ...
14/10. Today being the birthday of the Hon. Simon van der Stel, lately Extraordinary-Councillor* of the Indies and Governor of this place, he was congratulated by the Hon. Governor and some of the senior Servants ...
18/10 ... south-east wind ... the five ships lying near land must again run out to sea ...
21/10 ... they came into the bay, to wit the Huys Byweg, the Nederland, Peperboom, the Blois, these four bound for Batavia, and the Zion for Ceylon ... by the great number of dead and sick Nederland was very weak, and had taken 25 men from the ship Zion while lying at anchor behind the Dassen Island ...
22/10 ... the Peperboom also very shorthanded ... 25 men sent to help her ... reported that the first four named ships had put to sea from Texel on May 9 last ... delayed by calms near the Line for two months ... had been in sight of the coast here for 14 days ... 5 days lying off Dassen Island, where they found the Zion at anchor ...
24/10 ... the Skipper Leendert van Deijl [Peperboom] ... reported ... 46 deaths during the journey and 150 sick, mostly with scurvy, but that of these about 90, in the short time that they lay before the Dassen Island and by the eating and use of a certain herb not unlike sorrel which the said Island produces [cf. item 97], had become sufficiently convalescent, so that ... now there were only 64 sick ... to send ashore. And since the new Hospital* ... was now sufficiently ready ... all the sick were brought there from the old hospital, which was very dilapidated and moreover stood in an entirely unhealthy place ...
27/10 ... at last the said ships the Blois and Zion came to the roads, the former having 14 sick besides 2 dead, the latter 34 sick besides 21 dead on the journey ...
10/11 ... towards noon arrived ... a small English ship called Julia, 100 feet long, 26 beam and 14 deep, Captain Charles Cotesworth ... 24 guns and 60 head, sailed from the Duijns on April 28, having touched at Madera, St. Jago and Ascention, having had 1 death on the way but without sick, bound ... for Batavia ...
11/11 ... in the night comes into this bay the English return-ship The London, 100 feet long, 18 beam and 15 deep, Captain John Flower, 30 guns and 70 men, with no dead or sick, having sailed about 2 years ago via Cadix and Madera to Batavia ... now returning from Bornea ... sailed from Batavia August 18 ...
14/11 ... Today being the birthday of H.M. of Great Britain, and the said two English ships firing their guns in honour of this, so also by orders of the Hon. Governor some light cannon were fired from this fortress.
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