and on the [Robben] island each fired one signal shot, whereafter towards evening two English ships came sailing into the bay, but must drop anchor on the far side of the bay because of the adverse wind.
27/3 The sailing of the [return-] fleet awaits only the necessary repairs to the ship Oestgeest ... the English ships mentioned yesterday did their best to reach the anchorage in the roads, but the S.W. wind falling completely gave them no help, so that they made little progress [their arrival in the roads not given]
28/3 [Letter to Holland. Census: Company owns 758 sheep and goats, 378 horses, 828 oxen etc., 39 asses. Freemen: Men 502, women 270, boys 337, daughters 333, ‘lent*’ 90, slaves male 653, female 120, boys 41, girls 36, horses 746, oxen 3620, cows 3355, calves 2400, heifers 2307. sheep 62,055, pigs 358, vines 1,648,650, leggers* of wine 1025, wheat reaped 4,528½ muids*, rye 2,873½, barley 4751]
28/3 [same letter] ... We shall also take care that by the use of the Dutch language in church and school the French tongue shall fall into disuse among the inhabitants of the Drakenstein congregation, and finally die out ... [Letter sent by return-fleet]
30/3 ... the fleet set sail, consisting of the following nineteen ships [listed]
2/4 ... the flute* Waterman having watered, set sail about noon ...
4/4 ... the aforesaid English ships Discouvry and The Rising Eagle ...
6/4 ... an express overland from the Saldanha Bay ... on the 3rd instant ... the ship Meresteijn had gone aground on the Jutten Island and was broken up ... the skipper, book-keeper, second mate and most of the crew were lost, as also two women and their five children come out to the Cape ... provisions and drinking-water sent to about 100 survivors on that island by one of our galliots* [Wezel]
7/4 ... came to the roads the Danish ship Christianus Quintus ... bound like her compatriot for Tranquebar.
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