Cape Council of Policy
721
1683-02-01
Minute details
- Entry number
- 721
- Date
- 1683-02-01
- Year
- 1683
English translation
Those of the present Royal Danish ship the Flying Wolf, moored at sea, having addressed to this meeting by request how, after a hasty voyage of three months from the coast of Cormandel or the Castle of Danighsbergh on foreign soil,76 they had finally arrived safely in Table Bay and anchored on the east bank, having lost during the voyage 18 of their bravest sailors, and moreover here before the bank the Reverend Sir Siewert Adelaer,77 former chief of staff on account of the Danish Company. In India, the remaining crew were so debilitated by scurvy and low water levels that they would not have been able to bring their ship to the right roadstead without the assistance of the two English ships present, the Lof, Vrintschap, and Fijre Braase. Therefore, they found themselves in the utmost distress, with the explanation that if we would not permit them to buy refreshments from the free inhabitants, or to allow their impotent ones to be repatriated, there would be no means for them to continue their journey to Denmark. They therefore despondently requested assistance in this extreme emergency, as well as that they would bear the cost of the dead body of the aforementioned Lord. Adelaer may be solemnly brought to earth here on land with the militia, after which, having deliberated, and also summarizing the successive orders issued on this subject by the Lord our Principals here, we have deemed it appropriate to grant the aforementioned Danish friends permission to bring their impotent bodies ashore and lodge them at the home of one of the citizens to be reconvalesced there, also with the understanding that the dead body of the aforementioned Mr. Adelaer may be brought to earth here at her expense.
Thus arrested in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Thus arrested in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Original Dutch transcription
Die van ‘t present ter rheede leggende Conincklijcke Deensche schip d’ Vliegende Wolf haer bij request aen dese vergaderingh hebbende g’addresseert, hoe dat sij nae een fastidieuse reijs van drij maenden van de cust Cormandel off ‘t Casteel Danighsbergh op trangebaere 76 eijndelijck noch behouden in de Tafelbaaij waeren aengecomen en aen de oostwal ten ancker, hebbende op de reijs 18 van sijn cloeckste zeeluijden verlooren en buijtendienmedehier voor de wal den E. Heer Siewert Adelaer,77 gewesene opperhooft wegens de Deense Comp. in India, wesende ‘t resteerende volcq door scheurbuijck ende waatersucht soo debil, dat sij niet machtigh soude sijn geweest sonder assistentie van de twee aenwesende Engelse scheepen de Lof en Vrintschap en Fijre Braase haer schip op de rechte reede te brengen, weshalven haer bevonden in de uijtterste verlegentheijt, met verclaeringe ingevalle wij haar niet wilden permitteeren om verversinge van de vrij ingesetenen te moogen opcoopen, off wel haere impotenten aen lant te laaten refresieeren, geen middel voor haer te wesen om haere reijse naa Denemarken te connen voortsetten, sulcx gants demoedigh versochten in dese uijtterste noot te moogen werden geassisteert, mitsgaeders dat sij t’ haaren costen ‘t doode lichaem van de voornoemde Heer Adelaer hier aen landt statieuselijck met de millitie mochte laaten ter aerde brengen, waerop dan gedelibreert sijnde, en oock naeder geresumeert de successive gegevene ordres over dit subject van de Heere onse Principaelen nae herwaerts, hebben wij goet gevonden de voornoemde Deensche vrinden te accordeeren haer impotenten te moogen aen landt brengen, en ten huijse van een der borgers te huijsvesten om daer gereconvaliseert te werden, oock meede dat ‘t doode lichaem van de voorn. Heer Adelaer t’ haeren coste hier sal mogen werden ter aerde gebracht.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.
Aldus g’arresteert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. VAN DER STEL.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.
[Signed:] PHILIP THEODOOR WELCKER.