Cape Council of Policy
399
1669-05-17
Minute details
- Entry number
- 399
- Date
- 1669-05-17
- Year
- 1669
English translation
As Coenradus Urbamis86 , a free citizen here, having come over from Dassen Island87 to Robben Island on the 16th of May of this year, he carefully considered the cause of the death of the E. Comps. sheep already there, ordered to graze, and therefore affirms, to the best of his knowledge, that this could be remedied if the fresh sheep were brought to the Cape in a warm stable and well fed, after they were unable to find their food on the fresh island. Fearing that all of them would inevitably die due to the continuous rain and cold, the Commander and the Council resolved to immediately dispatch the whistle called the Leepelaer with suitable opportunity to collect the sheep in question, in order to preserve them to the best of their ability.
Act in the Fort of Good Hope, 17 May 166[9].
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Act in the Fort of Good Hope, 17 May 166[9].
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Original Dutch transcription
Alsoo Coenradus Urbamis86 , vrijeborger alhier, den 16en Meij deses jaers van het Dassen Eijlant 87 op het Robbeneijlant overgekomen sijnde, wel bedachtelijck sijn oogh geslagen heeft op d’ oorsaeck van het sterven van des E. Comps. schaepen al daer, omme te weijden bestel[t] ende dierhalven na sijne beste kennisse affirmeert dat sulcx geremedieert soude cunnen werden, ingeval de versz schaepen in een warme stal aen de Caep gebracht en wel gevoedert wierden, naedemael sij onmoogelijck hun voetsel op het versz eijlant kunnende becomen, te beduchten stonde dat nootwendigh alle deselve ter oorsaecke van den continuelen regen ende koude, souden komen te sterven, is bij den Commandeur en de Raat geresolveert aenstonts op deselve tijdinge het fluijtje genaemt den Leepelaer met bequaeme gelegentheijt tot het affhaelen van de verschrevene schaepen aff te vaerdigen omme die naer alle mogelijckheijt te conserveren.
Actum in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope adij 17en Maij 166[9].
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.
Actum in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope adij 17en Maij 166[9].
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
[Signed:] CORN. DE CRETSER.
[Signed:] JOHANNES COON.
[Signed:] JACOB GRANAAT.
[Signed:] G. F. WREEDEN.