Cape Council of Policy
179
1658-10-21
Minute details
- Entry number
- 179
- Date
- 1658-10-21
- Year
- 1658
English translation
Today, arriving here overland from Saldanha Bay, the person Jurien Jansz of Amsterdam, one of the free Saldanha sailors, with three men from the ship West Vrieslandt, arrived there on the 14th in a very miserable condition and full of sickly scurvy people, but they arrived safely, according to the letters from the chief and the verbal report of the three men, such that the situation is at its highest, preying on a mere supply of refreshment, although they are reasonably accommodated there by our free Saldanha sailors with vegetables, birds, and eggs from the islands situated there, which provide them with reasonable refreshment. So it is in the hastily approved the sheep hunt at first, loaded with yellow carrots, turnips, turnips, rammels and Spanish radishes &a. which can last somewhat better than vegetables, to be taken off, besides as much milk and chicken eggs from the freemen as can be hastily collected and fetched together, in order that the people of the aforementioned ship may be the more refreshed and encouraged to do their best; in order to get back there as quickly as possible, it would be desirable that, with one according to our inclination, we also send along some beastly food; but because of the lightness of the aforementioned sheep hunt (which is our sorrow), we must leave it behind, since only one of the second boat has been moored, and according to that, no beastly or sheep, besides the aforementioned horticultural crops, could be brought over so far alive; But if the seal yacht or a galley like the Tulp had, the aforementioned ship would be able to accommodate so much that it could continue its journey from there without arriving here. Therefore, as this cannot now be done beyond what has been agreed upon above, they should write to them to do their best to come back here as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, date here.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOEF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, date here.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOEF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Original Dutch transcription
Heden uijt de Saldanha-baij over landt hier aengecomen wesende den persoon Jurien Jansz van Amsterdam een van de vrije Saldanhavaerders met drie man van ‘t schip West Vrieslandt aldaer op den 14en passado seer ellendich ende vol siecq scheurbuijckigh volcq ter naeuwer noot noch behouden aengecomen, volgens schrijvens van d’ opperhooffden ende mondelijcke raport der verhaelde drie man, sulcx de noot op ‘t hooghste is pregnerende tot secours van ververssinge schoon sij ginder door onse vrije Saldanha-vaerders redelijcq worden g’accommodeert met groente, vogels, ende eijeren, van d’ eijlanden aldaer gelegen, ‘t welcke haer wel redelijcke verquickinge toebrenght, Soo is in der haeste goetgevonden het Schapejachtjen ten aldereersten, volladen met geele wortelen, croten, rapen, rammelassen ende Spaense radijsen &a. die wat beter als groente can duijren aff te vaerdigen, beneffens sooveel melcq ende hoendereijeren van de vrijeluijden als in der haeste op te samelen ende bij een te halen wesen sal, ten eijnde de luijden van voorsz schip daerdoor te meer verquickt ende aengemoedicht mogen worden hun best te doen: om soo haest mogelijcq voorts herwaerts op te comen, ware te wenschen dat men met eenen na onse genegentheijt oocq wat bestiael coste mede senden: maer is om de cleijnheijt des voorsz Schapejachtjen (t’ onser leetwesen) moeten na blijven, vermits maer van een tweede boot is opgeboeijt, ende volgens dien geen bestiael off schapen beneffens verhaelde thuijnvruchten soo verde levendigh souden cunnen overbrengen; maer indien ‘t Robbejachtjen offte een galjot als de Tulp hadden, souden voorsz schip soo veele wel cunnen accommoderen dat van daer sonder hier te comen sijn reijse voorts soude cunnen vervolgen, ‘t welcke dienthalven nu niet cunnende geschieden boven ‘t voorsz goetgevonden is haer aen te schrijven dat se hun best willen doen op ‘t spoedighste ende vermogens maer herwaerts op te comen &a.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOEF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope datum uts.
[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1658.
[Signed:] ROELOEF DE MAN.
[Signed:] JAN VAN HERWERDEN. 1658.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA, secrets. 1658.