Cape Council of Policy
308
1663-02-20
Minute details
- Entry number
- 308
- Date
- 1663-02-20
- Year
- 1663
English translation
Since the flute vessel "t Velthoen" will have to remain here for quite some time before it can be used for its intended voyage,
It was unanimously agreed in this meeting that the aforementioned vessel should be sent out on Thursday next, along with a letter of notification that all is well here, to sail inland from here or near Hout Bay, at a suitable anchorage, for the return Indian fleet (which is now expected every day, indeed every other day) until it is discovered, and to have the aforementioned letter delivered. To that end, we shall also bring from here as much drinking water and refreshments as may be convenient, to be delivered to any ships that may be needed.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1663.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1663.
It was unanimously agreed in this meeting that the aforementioned vessel should be sent out on Thursday next, along with a letter of notification that all is well here, to sail inland from here or near Hout Bay, at a suitable anchorage, for the return Indian fleet (which is now expected every day, indeed every other day) until it is discovered, and to have the aforementioned letter delivered. To that end, we shall also bring from here as much drinking water and refreshments as may be convenient, to be delivered to any ships that may be needed.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1663.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1663.
Original Dutch transcription
Dewijle ‘t fluijtscheepje ‘t Velthoen noch geruijmen tijt hier ter rheede sal moeten leggen, eer ‘t selve wijders tot sijn gedestineerde reijs sal cunnen gebruijckt werden,
Is te deser vergaderingh eenparigh verstaen ‘t gemelte scheepje op Donderdagh aenstaende met een advertentiebriefken dat hier noch alles wel staeth, naer buijten te senden, om op de Indische retourvlooth (die nu alle dagen ja alle ommesien verwachten) hier onder ‘t land te cruijssen, off omtrent de Houtbaij , op een bequame anckerplaets, soo lange de wacht te houden, tot dat deselve sal ontdeckt, en ‘t voorsz brieffken overgegeven hebben. Tot dien eijnde sullen ‘t selve oock van hier doen mede nemen, soo veel drinckwater en ververssingh als bequamelijck sal cunnen voeren, om aen de schepen die des benodight souden mogen wesen overgegeven te werden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1663.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1663.
Is te deser vergaderingh eenparigh verstaen ‘t gemelte scheepje op Donderdagh aenstaende met een advertentiebriefken dat hier noch alles wel staeth, naer buijten te senden, om op de Indische retourvlooth (die nu alle dagen ja alle ommesien verwachten) hier onder ‘t land te cruijssen, off omtrent de Houtbaij , op een bequame anckerplaets, soo lange de wacht te houden, tot dat deselve sal ontdeckt, en ‘t voorsz brieffken overgegeven hebben. Tot dien eijnde sullen ‘t selve oock van hier doen mede nemen, soo veel drinckwater en ververssingh als bequamelijck sal cunnen voeren, om aen de schepen die des benodight souden mogen wesen overgegeven te werden.
Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t Fort de Goede Hope ten dage ende jare als boven.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ROELOFF DE MAN.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1663.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1663.