Cape Council of Policy
142
1658-02-19
Minute details
- Entry number
- 142
- Date
- 1658-02-19
- Year
- 1658
English translation
The yacht Schelvis departed seven days after the departure of the return fleet under the Reverend Cuneus of Batavia and arrived here today, having carried a portion of the rice and other supplies for this Cape residency, from which the two necessary return ships, Arnhem and Hooningen, were subsidized and assisted with 8 loads of rice, beans, and cadjangh, enough to sail via St. Helena, combined with the aforementioned return fleet, and under its protection, may continue their voyage freely, may God be the first to reach the fatherland. And since the earlier departure of such ships, if this yacht, the Schelvis, had passed by long ago, since this yacht had lingered and drifted for another 9 days in addition to the aforementioned seven days of calm within sight of the Prince Islands 455 after that. fleet had already departed.
Thus, Commander Riebeeck, who was present at the Broad Council of the aforementioned Aldermen of Arnhem and Hooningen to reinforce the fort, considered whether it would be necessary to hasten the departure of these two ships and to sail after the aforementioned fleet to St. Helena. Furthermore, it was necessary that both ships should be equally equipped, and that one should not be sufficiently equipped and the other half-equipped. Nor should any more meat and speck be transferred from Hooningen to Arnhem, since Honingen had sufficient meat and speck, and in Arnhem there were no more than two barrels of meat and two barrels of bacon, as were also available at the fort. a lamb of meat, which against 1 1/2 lb. of meat and 1/2 lb. of bacon (which is according to the order and rule of the Company rations: 2 lambs and 1 bacon a day per week) will very little cover 150 heads (being at Arnhem): in order to thus fully cover the entire voyage from here to the Fatherland by missing the aforementioned return fleet at St. Helena, etc., On all of which the aforementioned Commander having obtained votes, was, after various deliberations, etc. understand that one will immediately send a commissioner to the yacht Schelvis to inspect it closely to see if perhaps some more meat and specq etc. might be found than was indeed provided for by Batavia, and in that way the aforementioned necessary return ship Arnhem might be assisted as much as possible, if one were to do so. hunting to be provisioned again with these things, let them remain here until the arrival of the first ship from the homeland, so as not to let buckets of these costly return ships wait any longer and to make a pact not to have to depart alone after the aforementioned return fleet, etc., for which end and to expedite it all the more, the Commander, from this having been dispelled, has permitted the Cape to add seven lasts of rice to each ship above the last of the day before yesterday, which in total will be 8 lasts of rice for each ship, plus 1/2 last of beans and 1/2 do. Cadjangh, with which a rich supply of rice, cadjangh, and beans457 was provided for five months, so that, with God's help, we could reach our homeland.
The aforementioned visit was then made and it was found that the necessary ship Arnhem could be furnished from the aforementioned yacht with:
5 barrels of meat and 2 barrels from the fort, being, in addition to the 2 that were on board, a total of 9 barrels of meat, 3 barrels of spice, and 2 on board a total of 5 barrels, 1/2 aem of olive oil, 1 legger of vinegar, 1/2 barrel of butter, 3 leggers of arac, and 2 leggers of 1/2 picol458 of wax, some cotton,... 1/2 rope as a surety for the stake,459 12 empty bars, 1 fawn pecq and 1 do. for Hooningen, 1/2 do. tar and 1/2 do. for Hooningen, 3 strands of sail twine, 1 do. for Hooningen, 1/2 do. tar and 1/2 do. for Hooningen, 3 strands of sail twine, 1 1/2 roll of lap cloth, 1/2 iron hawser, 8 bunch of tarpaulin and 6 do. for Hooningen with 1 bunch of rattan as well from the fort nor from Arnhem, - 1/2 aem brandy, 1/2 do. tears, 4 buckets and 2 do. with 4 hartjes for Honingen for its pumps,460
Thus, by unanimous vote, it was approved461 and decided to have the ships cleared by Thursday in order to then depart for St. Helena, as mentioned above. However, with the reservation that the chief merchant Johan Goosens and skipper Claes Speelman at Honingen also accept this and promise with their signature as stated below, if the return fleet should not find St. Helena or have already departed, and they should therefore arrive sooner, to resolve not to wait for the last ships there, but to go there earlier,462 that they will then hand over to the aforementioned ship Arnhem, plus 2 barrels of fish, to be equally rich and light. to be able to be separated from the other for any reason in the world: but always try to remain together by all possible means, including the ports of the fatherland, and to take even greater assistance The Commander here also requested that the defect be removed from the first Dutch ship and sent to St. Helena with one of the ships of the return fleet that might not arrive before that of Arnhem, whereupon this resolution was concluded and it was decided to use all means to ensure that the aforementioned two return ships could depart tomorrow, without any further delay.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hope, on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] WIJNANT VAN CATERSVELT.
[Signed:] J. GOOSENS.
[Signed:] CLAES SPEELMAN.
[Signed:] JAN SIJMONSEN.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Thus, Commander Riebeeck, who was present at the Broad Council of the aforementioned Aldermen of Arnhem and Hooningen to reinforce the fort, considered whether it would be necessary to hasten the departure of these two ships and to sail after the aforementioned fleet to St. Helena. Furthermore, it was necessary that both ships should be equally equipped, and that one should not be sufficiently equipped and the other half-equipped. Nor should any more meat and speck be transferred from Hooningen to Arnhem, since Honingen had sufficient meat and speck, and in Arnhem there were no more than two barrels of meat and two barrels of bacon, as were also available at the fort. a lamb of meat, which against 1 1/2 lb. of meat and 1/2 lb. of bacon (which is according to the order and rule of the Company rations: 2 lambs and 1 bacon a day per week) will very little cover 150 heads (being at Arnhem): in order to thus fully cover the entire voyage from here to the Fatherland by missing the aforementioned return fleet at St. Helena, etc., On all of which the aforementioned Commander having obtained votes, was, after various deliberations, etc. understand that one will immediately send a commissioner to the yacht Schelvis to inspect it closely to see if perhaps some more meat and specq etc. might be found than was indeed provided for by Batavia, and in that way the aforementioned necessary return ship Arnhem might be assisted as much as possible, if one were to do so. hunting to be provisioned again with these things, let them remain here until the arrival of the first ship from the homeland, so as not to let buckets of these costly return ships wait any longer and to make a pact not to have to depart alone after the aforementioned return fleet, etc., for which end and to expedite it all the more, the Commander, from this having been dispelled, has permitted the Cape to add seven lasts of rice to each ship above the last of the day before yesterday, which in total will be 8 lasts of rice for each ship, plus 1/2 last of beans and 1/2 do. Cadjangh, with which a rich supply of rice, cadjangh, and beans457 was provided for five months, so that, with God's help, we could reach our homeland.
The aforementioned visit was then made and it was found that the necessary ship Arnhem could be furnished from the aforementioned yacht with:
5 barrels of meat and 2 barrels from the fort, being, in addition to the 2 that were on board, a total of 9 barrels of meat, 3 barrels of spice, and 2 on board a total of 5 barrels, 1/2 aem of olive oil, 1 legger of vinegar, 1/2 barrel of butter, 3 leggers of arac, and 2 leggers of 1/2 picol458 of wax, some cotton,... 1/2 rope as a surety for the stake,459 12 empty bars, 1 fawn pecq and 1 do. for Hooningen, 1/2 do. tar and 1/2 do. for Hooningen, 3 strands of sail twine, 1 do. for Hooningen, 1/2 do. tar and 1/2 do. for Hooningen, 3 strands of sail twine, 1 1/2 roll of lap cloth, 1/2 iron hawser, 8 bunch of tarpaulin and 6 do. for Hooningen with 1 bunch of rattan as well from the fort nor from Arnhem, - 1/2 aem brandy, 1/2 do. tears, 4 buckets and 2 do. with 4 hartjes for Honingen for its pumps,460
Thus, by unanimous vote, it was approved461 and decided to have the ships cleared by Thursday in order to then depart for St. Helena, as mentioned above. However, with the reservation that the chief merchant Johan Goosens and skipper Claes Speelman at Honingen also accept this and promise with their signature as stated below, if the return fleet should not find St. Helena or have already departed, and they should therefore arrive sooner, to resolve not to wait for the last ships there, but to go there earlier,462 that they will then hand over to the aforementioned ship Arnhem, plus 2 barrels of fish, to be equally rich and light. to be able to be separated from the other for any reason in the world: but always try to remain together by all possible means, including the ports of the fatherland, and to take even greater assistance The Commander here also requested that the defect be removed from the first Dutch ship and sent to St. Helena with one of the ships of the return fleet that might not arrive before that of Arnhem, whereupon this resolution was concluded and it was decided to use all means to ensure that the aforementioned two return ships could depart tomorrow, without any further delay.
Thus done and resolved at Fort de Goede Hope, on the day and year as above.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] WIJNANT VAN CATERSVELT.
[Signed:] J. GOOSENS.
[Signed:] CLAES SPEELMAN.
[Signed:] JAN SIJMONSEN.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Original Dutch transcription
‘t Jacht de Schelvis seven daghen na ‘t vertrek van de retourvlote onder d’ E. heer Cuneus van Batavia vertrocken ende heden hier wel ter rhede g’arriveert wesende met parthye rijs &a. voor dese Caepse residentie waeruijt de 2 benodichde retourschepen Arnhem ende Hooningen met 8 lasten rijs, boonen ende cadjangh soo veele cunnen werden gesubsideert ende geholpen dat sijl. over St. Helena met gemelte. retourvloote gecombineert ende onder bescherminge van deselve voorts hare reijse vry segourst Godt de voorste nae ‘t vaderlandt mogen winnen.
Ende nademael vermits ‘t vroeger vertreck derselver schepen als dit jacht de Schelvis , deselve wel al langh mochten verby wesen, vermits dit jacht noch 9 daghen langh boven de voorsz seven dagen van stilte in ‘t gesicht van de Prince Eylanden 455 heefft leggen talmen ende dryven nadat do. vloote al wech was,
Soo is bij den Commandeur Riebeeck die van den Breden Raedt der verhaelde Schepen Arnhem ende Hooningen tot versterckinge des forts Raedts in Raede present in consideratie gelecht.456 off men niet sal met aller ijl spoedigen om dese 2 schepen te laeten vertrecken ende de gemelte vloot aen St. Helena na te seijlen, Item oock op dat deselve alle beijde even gelijcq mochten versien wesen, ende niet den eenen alleen genouch ende den anderen halff versien, oocq niet soude behooren wat van vleijs ende specq meer uyt Hooningen aen Arnhem overgeven, vermits Honingen van vleijs ende speck genoech versien is, ende in Arnhem niet meer als 2 vaeten vleijs ende 2 vaeten spek syn, als oocq by ‘t fort maer een vadt vleys, welcke tegen 1 1/2 lb. vleys ende 1/2 lb. speck (synde nae d’ ordre ende regel van Comps. ransoenen 2 vleys ende 1 speck dach ‘s weecks) voor 150 Coppen (op Arnhem sijnde) gansch weijnich can strecken: om alsoo gesamentlijck daermede ten vollen de gansche reys van hier tot ‘t Patria by missinge van de voorsz retourvloote aen St. Helena te erlangen &a., Op allen ‘t welcke den Commandeur voormelt dan de stemmen affgevordert hebbende, is nae verscheijden deliberatien &a. verstaen dat men soo datelijck gecommitteerde aen ‘t jacht de Schelvis sall senden om ‘t selve wel nau te visiteren off misschien eenich meer vleys ende specq &a. mochten gevonden worden als tot provisie van Batavia wel is mede gegeven, ende daerdoor voorsz benoodicht costelijck retourschip Arnhem ten naesten by noch mochten geholpen worden al soude men do. jacht om van die dingen weder op nieuws geprovideert te worden, laeten hier blyven leggen tot de compste van ‘t eerste schip uyt ‘t vaderlant om emmers dese costelycke retourschepen niet langer te laeten wachten ende in pryckel te stellen van noch na de voorsz retourvloote te moeten alleen vertrecken &a., ten welcken eijnde ende om ‘t selve te meer te vorderen heefft den Commandeur uijt dit becomen ontseth voor de Caep toegestaen elck schip boven ‘t last rys daechs voor eergister gehaelt noch seven lasten by te doen, dat samen voor elck schip sal wesen 8 lasten rys, beneffens yder oocq. 1/2 last boonen ende 1/2 do. cadjangh waermede dan ryckelijckvan rijs, cadjangh ende bonen457 voor 5 maenden sijn geprovideert om met Godes hulpe in ‘t vaderlandt te comen.
Welcke verhaelde visite dan gedaen ende bevonden wesende dat het benodichde schip Arnhem uijt voorsz jacht can versien worden met:
5 vaeten vleijs ende 2 do. uijt ‘t fort, sijnde neffens de 2 die aen boort syn samen 9 vaeten vleijs, 3 vaeten specq ende 2 aen boort samen 5 vaeten, 1/2 aem olij, 1 legger azyn, . 1/2 vath boter, 3 leggers aracq ende 2 do. aen**1/2 picol458 was, wat cattoen, . 1/2 touw tot een borgh voor de stach,459 12 ledighe leggers, 1 vadt pecq ende 1 do. voor Hooningen , 1/2 do. teer ende 1/2 do. voor Hooningen , 3 strengh zeylgaren, 1 do. voor Hooningen , 1/2 do. teer ende 1/2 do. voor Hooningen , 3 strengh zeylgaren, 1 1/2 rol lapdoeck, 1/2 ysere tros, 8 bos londt ende 6 do. voor Hooningen met 1 bos rottingh mitsgaders uyt ‘t fort noch voor Arnhem , - 1/2 aem brandewijn, 1/2 do. traen, 4 emmertjes ende 2 do. met 4 hartjes voor Hooningen tot hare pompen,460
Soo is by eenparicheyt van stemmengoetgevonden461 ende vastgestelt de schepen tegen Donderdach te laeten claer maecken om als dan na St. Helena ten eynde voormelt te vertrecken, onder die reserve nochtans dat den oppercoopman Johan Goosens ende schipper Claes Speelman op Honingen bescheyden bij desen oocq aenneemen ende met hare handtteyckeninge hier onder gestelt beloven, indien de retourvlote aen St. Helena niet mochten vinden offte al vertrocken wesen, ende sijl dierhalven mochten comen te resolveren niet na de leste schepen daer te wachten maer onder hun beyden vroeger daer te gaen,462 dat se dan sullen aen voorsz schip Arnhem overgeven noch 2 vaeten vleys om alsoo even rijck en sober versien te moghen wesen, ende om genige oorsaecken ter werelt van den andren scheijden: maer altijt met alle doenlycke middelen trachten byeen te blyven tot de havenen van het vaderlandt incluys, ende tot noch meerder adsistentie neemt den Commandeur alhier mede aen uijt het eerste vaderlantse schip het mancquement te lichten ende met een van de schepen der retourvloote dat noch mochte aencomen voor die van Arnhem aen St. Helena oock noch na te senden, waerop dan deze resolutie geslooten ende vastgestelt blijft alle debvoiren aen te wenden om de voorsz 2 retourschepen over morgen mogelycq sijnde te laten vertrecken, sonder eenich langer dilaij.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope, ten daghe ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] WIJNANT VAN CATERSVELT.
[Signed:] J. GOOSENS.
[Signed:] CLAES SPEELMAN.
[Signed:] JAN SIJMONSEN.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Ende nademael vermits ‘t vroeger vertreck derselver schepen als dit jacht de Schelvis , deselve wel al langh mochten verby wesen, vermits dit jacht noch 9 daghen langh boven de voorsz seven dagen van stilte in ‘t gesicht van de Prince Eylanden 455 heefft leggen talmen ende dryven nadat do. vloote al wech was,
Soo is bij den Commandeur Riebeeck die van den Breden Raedt der verhaelde Schepen Arnhem ende Hooningen tot versterckinge des forts Raedts in Raede present in consideratie gelecht.456 off men niet sal met aller ijl spoedigen om dese 2 schepen te laeten vertrecken ende de gemelte vloot aen St. Helena na te seijlen, Item oock op dat deselve alle beijde even gelijcq mochten versien wesen, ende niet den eenen alleen genouch ende den anderen halff versien, oocq niet soude behooren wat van vleijs ende specq meer uyt Hooningen aen Arnhem overgeven, vermits Honingen van vleijs ende speck genoech versien is, ende in Arnhem niet meer als 2 vaeten vleijs ende 2 vaeten spek syn, als oocq by ‘t fort maer een vadt vleys, welcke tegen 1 1/2 lb. vleys ende 1/2 lb. speck (synde nae d’ ordre ende regel van Comps. ransoenen 2 vleys ende 1 speck dach ‘s weecks) voor 150 Coppen (op Arnhem sijnde) gansch weijnich can strecken: om alsoo gesamentlijck daermede ten vollen de gansche reys van hier tot ‘t Patria by missinge van de voorsz retourvloote aen St. Helena te erlangen &a., Op allen ‘t welcke den Commandeur voormelt dan de stemmen affgevordert hebbende, is nae verscheijden deliberatien &a. verstaen dat men soo datelijck gecommitteerde aen ‘t jacht de Schelvis sall senden om ‘t selve wel nau te visiteren off misschien eenich meer vleys ende specq &a. mochten gevonden worden als tot provisie van Batavia wel is mede gegeven, ende daerdoor voorsz benoodicht costelijck retourschip Arnhem ten naesten by noch mochten geholpen worden al soude men do. jacht om van die dingen weder op nieuws geprovideert te worden, laeten hier blyven leggen tot de compste van ‘t eerste schip uyt ‘t vaderlant om emmers dese costelycke retourschepen niet langer te laeten wachten ende in pryckel te stellen van noch na de voorsz retourvloote te moeten alleen vertrecken &a., ten welcken eijnde ende om ‘t selve te meer te vorderen heefft den Commandeur uijt dit becomen ontseth voor de Caep toegestaen elck schip boven ‘t last rys daechs voor eergister gehaelt noch seven lasten by te doen, dat samen voor elck schip sal wesen 8 lasten rys, beneffens yder oocq. 1/2 last boonen ende 1/2 do. cadjangh waermede dan ryckelijckvan rijs, cadjangh ende bonen457 voor 5 maenden sijn geprovideert om met Godes hulpe in ‘t vaderlandt te comen.
Welcke verhaelde visite dan gedaen ende bevonden wesende dat het benodichde schip Arnhem uijt voorsz jacht can versien worden met:
5 vaeten vleijs ende 2 do. uijt ‘t fort, sijnde neffens de 2 die aen boort syn samen 9 vaeten vleijs, 3 vaeten specq ende 2 aen boort samen 5 vaeten, 1/2 aem olij, 1 legger azyn, . 1/2 vath boter, 3 leggers aracq ende 2 do. aen**1/2 picol458 was, wat cattoen, . 1/2 touw tot een borgh voor de stach,459 12 ledighe leggers, 1 vadt pecq ende 1 do. voor Hooningen , 1/2 do. teer ende 1/2 do. voor Hooningen , 3 strengh zeylgaren, 1 do. voor Hooningen , 1/2 do. teer ende 1/2 do. voor Hooningen , 3 strengh zeylgaren, 1 1/2 rol lapdoeck, 1/2 ysere tros, 8 bos londt ende 6 do. voor Hooningen met 1 bos rottingh mitsgaders uyt ‘t fort noch voor Arnhem , - 1/2 aem brandewijn, 1/2 do. traen, 4 emmertjes ende 2 do. met 4 hartjes voor Hooningen tot hare pompen,460
Soo is by eenparicheyt van stemmengoetgevonden461 ende vastgestelt de schepen tegen Donderdach te laeten claer maecken om als dan na St. Helena ten eynde voormelt te vertrecken, onder die reserve nochtans dat den oppercoopman Johan Goosens ende schipper Claes Speelman op Honingen bescheyden bij desen oocq aenneemen ende met hare handtteyckeninge hier onder gestelt beloven, indien de retourvlote aen St. Helena niet mochten vinden offte al vertrocken wesen, ende sijl dierhalven mochten comen te resolveren niet na de leste schepen daer te wachten maer onder hun beyden vroeger daer te gaen,462 dat se dan sullen aen voorsz schip Arnhem overgeven noch 2 vaeten vleys om alsoo even rijck en sober versien te moghen wesen, ende om genige oorsaecken ter werelt van den andren scheijden: maer altijt met alle doenlycke middelen trachten byeen te blyven tot de havenen van het vaderlandt incluys, ende tot noch meerder adsistentie neemt den Commandeur alhier mede aen uijt het eerste vaderlantse schip het mancquement te lichten ende met een van de schepen der retourvloote dat noch mochte aencomen voor die van Arnhem aen St. Helena oock noch na te senden, waerop dan deze resolutie geslooten ende vastgestelt blijft alle debvoiren aen te wenden om de voorsz 2 retourschepen over morgen mogelycq sijnde te laten vertrecken, sonder eenich langer dilaij.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope, ten daghe ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] WIJNANT VAN CATERSVELT.
[Signed:] J. GOOSENS.
[Signed:] CLAES SPEELMAN.
[Signed:] JAN SIJMONSEN.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.