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1659-06-02

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Entry number
202
Date
1659-06-02
Year
1659

English translation

Around nine o'clock in the morning the captain came home with a report that yesterday evening about 50 to 60 Hottentoos (being led by Doman and the other acquaintance) had arrived in reasonable condition, as he had hidden himself very well in three groups of embassies, with the appearance of being able to observe them well, etc., but that due to the carelessness of the freeman Herman Remanjenne, they had been discovered too early and thus remained hidden from their signal. It was therefore decided to resume this the sooner the better. And at the end of the morning early the Commander, together with the skipper of the fluijtjen7 with 3 or 4 horses and some soldiers himself completely to to go over and far out near the Bosheuvel, supposedly to make a round or to keep an eye on all the freemen at once, as the Hottentoos of the same are sometimes accustomed to do. And in the evening to return home again early, and also to let the sergeant stay out again, with a group of 18 or 20 of the best soldiers from the Comps. servants and freemen to be chosen, and at night to send them secretly to the Bosheuvel, near the Comps. 20 worst beasts kept there as daredevils, with 5 men, to abuse the Hottentoos by one means or another, and to make them feel a good push if possible, since with our current small force, nothing can be done about them, first or otherwise. The aforementioned soldiers also resolved to add 4 strong slaves armed with hagfish to run down some Hottentoos as they fled and capture them alive, etc.

Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, date as above.

[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.

[Signed:] STEVEN FORAN.

[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.


[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.

[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.

[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.

Original Dutch transcription

’s Morgens omtrent negen uijren den sargeandt thuijs gecomen wesende met raport, dat haer gister tegen den avondt omtrent 50 a 60 Hottentoos (gevoert wordende van Doman en de andere bekende) redelijcq schoon waren bij gecomen, daer hij sich seer wel in drij troupen embuscade op verborgen had, met apparentie om deselve fray te sullen cunnen waernemen &a., doch dat door onvoorsichtigheijt van den vrijborger Herman Remanjenne, te vroegh ondeckt ende alsoo van hun desseijn versteecqen gebleven waren, Soo is goedtgevonden sulcx hoe eer hoe liever te hervatten, Ende ten dien eynde morgen vroegh den Commandr.neffens den schipper van‘tfluijtjen7 met 3 a 4 paerden ende eenige soldaten selffs heel tot over ende verbij den Bosheuvel uyt te gaen, quansuijs om een ronde of het oogh over al der vryeluijden bou eens te laten gaen, gelijck de Hottentoos van denselven doch somtyts wel gewoon sijn, Ende ‘s avondts eeven stercq weder na huijs te keeren, mitsgaders den sargeandt weder uijt te laten blijven, met een trop van 18 a 20 van de beste soldaten uijt Comps. dienaers ende vryel. te kiesen, ende tegen den nacht bedectelijck na den bosheuvel te senden, bij des Comps. 20 slechste beesten daer tot waegh-halsen, met 5 man bewaart om de Hottentoos op d’ een of d’ ander middel te abuseeren, Ende eens een goede stoot mogelycq sijnde te laten voelen, dewyl men mits onse jegenwoordige cleyne macht voor eerst noch anders op deselve niet doen can, bij welcqe voorsz soldaten oocq geresolveert is 4 fixe slaven g’armeert met hasegaijen toe te voegen om in ‘t vluchten eenige Hottentoos te onderlopen ende levendich te mogen in handen crijgen &a.

Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope datum als boven.

[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1659.

[Signed:] STEVEN FORAN.

[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.

[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1659.

[Signed:] PITER EVRARD.

[Signed:] GYSBT. VAN CAMPEN, secrets.