Aengesien d’ Ede. Gentlemen Masters in the fatherland, who have not yet allowed it to fall upon them, that we continue to send a few volunteer enthusiasts into the country every year, judging now that the number of the clan,290 that is a certain type of people called Namaquas291 has been found, we will also eventually get the end of it. And since Sergiant Jonas de La Guere, along with many other capable men, indeed more than will be needed for this, have come to present their services to us again, it has now been understood and decided at this meeting to undertake the aforementioned expedition again, provided that we, in place of 13 persons (who have been used for all such expeditions before this year), for various reasons, 16 of the To select the quickest and most fluent troops (who are accustomed to unease and not afraid of a little noise) for this purpose, and to appoint the aforementioned sergeant, an active man and an exceptionally good marksman, as head and executor of this journey. With this, they will depart from here at the beginning of the following October, along with two or three Cape Hottentoes, with a wagon and a team of eight oxen, having received written instructions for this. Meanwhile, as usual, they will arrange and have ready everything required for such an expedition.
Thus done and resolved at the Fort of Good Hope, on the date and year as above.
[Signed:] Z. WAGENAER.
[Signed:] ABRAHAM GABBEMA. 1663.
[Signed:] H. LACUS, Secrets. 1663.