Noting the skipper of the houcker boat Poelsnip, named Jan Cleijne-boef, not only had been continually drunk during his voyage from Batavia, and then behaved very rudely towards his subordinates, approaching them with shameful insults and threats, often treating them very rudely as if without reason, but also, above all, he dared to say that he would be devilishly self-possessed, that if no other officers came from here, he would sail the houcker away, &a. everything more fully attested to by a certain certificate of such a course, is evident: Therefore, we now (taking into account that this forthcoming journey to Mauritius, as a further journey, was not without risk, to be made by that ship, as a departure from Westwout's) have, at this meeting, determined and decided to deport the skipper of that ship and have him depart as a passenger on the Jonge Prins to Batavia, and in his place, as skipper on the aforementioned boat, we authorize the aforementioned bullman of Westwout, Cornelis Philipsz van Middelburg.
Thus done and resolved in the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] CORN. VAN QUAELBERGH.
[Signed:] HENDR. LACUS.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.