Cape Council of Policy
407
1669-10-17
Minute details
- Entry number
- 407
- Date
- 1669-10-17
- Year
- 1669
English translation
Noting the departure of the small yacht the Voerman, which in place of the late Leepelaer, passed over there in the resolution dated 15th July, for the necessary provisioning of the Mauritian settlements in the month of August, we had to send there some time ago a suitable small ship or boat to use here for the service of the E. Compe. had not been provided. So we thought it best to depart for the first time for this purpose the first incoming small ship, and consequently the small boat the Voorn, which appeared from the Patria on the 16th of last month, and in that way to sail the same bottom on the last. with timber (which our small ships could not transport) to erect a very necessary sheepfold, sent to Dassen Island, with orders to return as soon as possible, which then, due to the contrary wind, had not employed all means and seamanship, did not arrive here again until the 14th of this month, and after the aforementioned cornerman had also planned to moor to the east of this cape for further discovery of the situation of its quarters, according to the intention and order of our Lord Majores, we have, from the written advice of the skipper of the aforementioned cornerman, who in the year 1664 with the whistle 't Moorhen a similar who has attended the setting out, noted that at this time of year completely opposite winds blow here east of the coast, against which no one can come anywhere; It has also been pointed out to us, in the surviving proposal of Sergiant Jeronimus Croese, who was sent out last year with the yacht De Voerman to the aforementioned end, that it is now too late in the monsoon, and that this dispatch could be resumed much more expeditiously and with less fuss over the country road. Consequently, after various debates on this matter, as well as good and mature deliberation, we have finally resolved and established that the aforementioned Hoecker de Voorn should be extended from here to India again, and that this journey overland should be made with Sergiant Jeronimus Croese, for instance. Twenty-five of our 112 regular volunteer travelers, in the name of the Lord, will undertake this as soon as possible before the three-month deadline, and, having been equipped with regular merchants for the cattle trade and other necessities, will undertake the aforementioned journey, trusting that this journey, should it succeed and Her Noble Right Eye be successful, will be achieved here. Therefore, God Almighty will be pleased to grant His gracious blessings.
Thus done and resolved, at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
Thus done and resolved, at the Fort of Good Hope on the day and year aforesaid.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
Original Dutch transcription
Germerckt naer ‘t vertreck van het jachtje de Voerman , dat in plaetse van d’ affgeloopene Leepelaer achtervolgen resolutie dato 15en Julij passado, tot nootsaeckelijcke provianderinge van d’ Mauritiuse besettelingen in de maant Augustij, derwaerts hebben moeten laeten vertrecken, wij eenigen tijt herwaerts van een bequaem scheepje ofte hoecker om hier ten dienste van d’ E. Compe. te gebruijcken niet en sijn versien geweest, Soo heeft ons goet gedacht het eerste aancomende scheepje, en gevolgelijck ‘t hoecker bootge de Voorn , op 16en der verledenene maant, uijt het Patria verscheenen, alhiervoor eerst111 aan te houden, ende dierwegen ‘t selve bodemtje den laesten do. met timmerhout (dat door onse kleijne navetjes niet conde gevoert werden) tot het oprechten van een seer noodige schaepenstal, naer ‘t Dasseneijlant versonden, met ordre ons soo haest mogelijck weder bij te comen, dewelcke dan door contrarie wint niet jegenstaende alle middelen en zeemanschappen hadden aengewendet, niet eer als den 14en deser alhier ter rheede wederom is gearriveert, ende nadat den voorsz hoecker oock hadden geprojecteert om d’ oost van dese Caep tot verder ontdeckingh van de situatien derselver quartieren, volgens de intentie en ordres onser Heeren Majores aen te leggen, hebben wij uijt het schriftelijcke advijs des schippers van de meergenoemde hoecker, dewelcke in ‘t jaer 1664 met ‘t fluijtje ‘t Waterhoen een diergelijcke uijtsettingh heeft bijgewoont, geremarcqueert dat omtrent dese tijt van ‘t jaer gants contrarie winden hier beoosten de wal waeijen, tegens dewelcke geensints derwaerts op te comen sij; oock is ons bij ‘t overgelevert voorstel van den sergiant Jeronimus Croese, soo in ‘t verleeden jaer met ‘t jachtie de Voerman ten eijnde voorsz is uijtgesonden geweest, mede aengeweesen, dat ‘et tegenwoordigh te laet in ‘t mouson is, en dese besendinge veel bequaemelijcker, en met minder prijckel vermenght, over den lant wegh sullen connen hervatten, ingevolge hebben wij naer verscheijde debatten over die materie gevallen, mitsgaeders goet en rijpe deliberatie hiertoe gehoorende, eijndelijck geresolveert en vastgestelt, d’ opgemelte hoecker de Voorn weder van hier naer India te largeren, ende dese tocht over lant met den sergiant Jeronimus Croese voornt. envijff en twintigh van onse112 gewoone vrijwillige lantgangers in den naeme des Heeren ‘t ondersta[en,] sullende deselve op ‘t spoedigste alvorens voor drie maenden gevictualjeert, ende met gewone coopmanschappen, tot den veehandel, mitsgaeders andere behoeften versien sijnde, de voorsz reijse, laeten onderneemen, onder vertrouwen, dat dese toght, a desseijn uijtvallen en Haer Edle. rechte ooghwith, hier in sal connen berijckt werden, daer toe dan Godt Almachtigh sijnen genaedigen zeegen gelieven te verleenen.
Aldus gedaen en geresolveert, in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.
Aldus gedaen en geresolveert, in ‘t Fort de Goede Hoope ten dage en jaere voorsz.
[Signed:] JACOB BORGHORST.