Background - continued
20/11/1699 ... at last the said ships Nederland and Zion weighed their anchors and set sail ...
29/11 ... the said English return-ship The London frigate* weighed her anchor and ... set sail ...
30/11 ... the other English ship Julia ... sets her prow directly for Batavia ...
19/12 ... an English ship called Loijal Marchant, Captn Matthias Lowth, 30 guns and 109 head, ran out of the Duijns on September 1 last ... bound for bombay and Zuratta ...
27/12 ... the said English ship Loyal Marchant weighed anchor, but ... adverse wind ... reanchored ...
[28/12 to 31/12 see in item 99]
30/12 ... in the night arrived back the frigate* Peter and Paul from Madagascar, having bartered there 198 slaves, of whom 14 had died in the journey hither ...