Cape Council of Policy
2
1651-12-30
Minute details
- Entry number
- 2
- Date
- 1651-12-30
- Year
- 1651
English translation
The wind is westerly, blowing quite hard. We find the ship Drommedaris so ragged that we can barely sail without fear of great difficulty. Therefore, we summoned the skippers of the Reijger and Hope aboard and presented the ship's raggedness to the council. the ship's officers having been summoned, declared that it was not advisable to proceed to sea with the ship without difficulty, as it was impossible to get over a lee shore if one were to run aground, nor to be able to fend off some rough seas by making way. So, after careful deliberation and mature discussion, it was unanimously agreed, largely in the interest of the E. Company, that, as making way for making way would be difficult, three ships should seek a suitable port on the English coast with us, to ballast the ship Drommedaris there with some boat-stones, and then together from there to advance our intended voyage as quickly as possible with all possible diligence.
Thus done and resolved in the ship the Drommedaris, on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK, 1651.
[Signed:] DAVIT CONINCK.
[Signed:] JAN HOOCHSAET.
[Signed:] SYMEN TURVER.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Thus done and resolved in the ship the Drommedaris, on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK, 1651.
[Signed:] DAVIT CONINCK.
[Signed:] JAN HOOCHSAET.
[Signed:] SYMEN TURVER.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Original Dutch transcription
De wint westelijck, vrij hard aencoelende. Bevinden ‘t schip den Drommedaris soo ranck te wesen, dat wij quaelijck eenigh seijl cunnen voeren, sonder beduchtinge van groote swarigheijt, derhalven de schippers van den Reijger ende Hope aen boort ontboden hebben, ende haer in den Raedt voorgedragen de ranckheijt des schips; daerbij geroepen sijnde de scheeps-officieren, dewelcke verclaerden niet sonder prijckel geraden met ‘t schip door zee te gaen, alsoo niet mogelijck is, op een lager wal vervallende, daerboven te cunnen geraecken, noch met een bijleggen eenige smacken van grove zeen te cunnen affslaen, Soo is na goet overlegh ende rijpe deliberatien eenparigh nootshalven ten meesten dienste van d’ E. Comp. goetgevonden, dewijle doch weijnigh met bijleggen cunnen vorderen, aen d’ Engelse cust met ons drie schepen bequame haven te soecken omme ‘t schip den Drommedaris aldaer met eenige bootssteen te ballasten, ende dan gesamentlijck van daer op ‘t alderspoedighste onse gedestineerde reijse met alle mogelijcke vlijt te bevoirderen.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t schip den Drommedaris , ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK, 1651.
[Signed:] DAVIT CONINCK.
[Signed:] JAN HOOCHSAET.
[Signed:] SYMEN TURVER.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t schip den Drommedaris , ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] JOHAN VAN RIEBEECK, 1651.
[Signed:] DAVIT CONINCK.
[Signed:] JAN HOOCHSAET.
[Signed:] SYMEN TURVER.
[Signed:] P. v. HELM, Secrets.