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1654-08-15

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Entry number
52
Date
1654-08-15
Year
1654

English translation

As the ship Angelier arrived here yesterday, with some sick and torn goods to refresh as necessary, to get ballast and water, etc., it apparently will be another half month before it leaves here to continue its journey to Batavia. So it is with the Commander. having sailed from the fort de Goede Hope to the Goudtsblom in order not to delay or delay the ships laying seals by summoning the skippers to shore, the Council there (reinforced by all the skippers of the said Goudtsblom, Haes, Aengeliers, Botterblom and Caepvogel) was summoned, and by them, after well-taken deliberation, it was resolved, to send the letters to the Honorable Lords Governor General and Councillors of India, with the said Angelier, the chief captains of the ship Goudtsblom present with anchor up and down next to the Haes and Botterblom, laying seals, to surrender: in order to give their thought to the Honorable. to Batavia, with whichever of the three at sea is best decided, the sooner the advice should arrive, as the speedy dispatch of that for the Royal Netherlands Company might be of great importance. Therefore, it is also understood that the ship at sea will not be bound to keep company with the other two, but that in that case it will do its best to bring the advice to Batavia as quickly as possible.

Thus done and resolved in the ship Goudtsblom, laying sail in Taeffel Bay, date uts.

[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.

[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.

[Signed:] SANDER VAN OSSEN.

[Signed:] CLAES JANSZEN REEPS.

[Signed:] PIETER BARCKHOUT.

[Signed:] PIETER ABBEKERK.

[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.

Original Dutch transcription

Alsoo ‘t schip de Angelier op gister hier gearriveert, met eenige siecken ende scheurbuyckige omme dewelcke na behooren te verversschen, ballast ende water te haelen &a., apparent wel een halve maent noch sal aenloopen eer van hier sal comen te vertrecken om syn reyse voorts na Batavia te vervolgen, Soo is by den Commandr. van ‘t fort de Goede Hope aen de Goudtsblom gevaren wesende omme met ‘t aen lant ontbieden van de schippers de seylreet leggende schepen daerdoor niet te retarderen nochte op te houden, den Raedt aldaer (versterckt met alle de schippers van de gemelte Goudtsblom , Haes , Aengeliers , Botterblom ende Caepvogel ) beroepen, ende by deselve na wel genomen delibera[ti]e geresolveert, de brieven aen d’ Ed. Heeren Gouverneur Generael ende Raden van India met de gemelte Angelier hier gecomen d’ opperhooffden van ‘t schip de Goudtsblom jegenwoordich met ‘t ancker op ende neer neffens de Haes ende Botterblom , seylreet leggende, te laeten over geven: omme haer gedachte Ed. tot Batavia daermede off ‘t welcke by van haer drien in zee bevinden de best beseylt te wesen, soo veel te eerder do. advysen te laten toecomen, alsoo misschien aen de spoedige bestellingh van dien voor d’E. Compe. wel veele mochte gelegen wesen, waeromme oock verstaen is, dat beseijlst bevindende schip niet te binden aen ‘t geselschap houden met de andere twee: maer dat als dan in dien gevalle syn beste sal doen om do. advysen spoedich op Batavia te brengen.

Aldus gedaen ende geresolveert in ‘t schip de Goudtsblom seylreet leggende in de Taeffelbay , datum uts.

[Signed:] JAN VAN RIEBEECK. 1654.

[Signed:] SIJMON SIJMONSZ.

[Signed:] SANDER VAN OSSEN.

[Signed:] CLAES JANSZEN REEPS.

[Signed:] PIETER BARCKHOUT.

[Signed:] PIETER ABBEKERK.

[Signed:] R. DE MAN, Secrets. 1654.