Cape Council of Policy
743
1684-04-15
Minute details
- Entry number
- 743
- Date
- 1684-04-15
- Year
- 1684
English translation
at six o'clock in the evening.158
The Commander of the Stel de Raadt, reinforced by Commander Joan Hendrick Thim159 and the Commander of the present return ships, Steven Schorer, having had conscripted, his E. comes to deduce that the Company had entered into a certain conditional contract about four months ago with a certain captain of the Soeswaese nation, colloquially known to us as Claes, to brutally harass the King's Company at the distant Hottentoose nation for the money given to him for that purpose, in order to prevent the heavy fines that the King's Company would incur. had previously to carry a certain number from our garrison to perform this task, to send them inland & a. following which, so we have already been provided with 200 fine horned animals from the country back here by the same, and his E. has today again obtained news that the aforementioned captain has now again sent a number of 197 fine animals for the E. Comp. had negotiated with whom he had already been on his way to bring him here, but through some of his men, sent beforehand to discover the safety of the passages, obtained knowledge that the Obiecquae nation had stationed itself on the passages to plunder his Compan's cattle, whereby he had been tempted to return to his corals, and considering the aforementioned Obiecquaes are a nation that treats them with plunder, and recently some citizens with our license went inland to be allowed to shoot manatees to subdue their families, attacked them at the Elephants River, and took away all their animals to the number of 16 pieces, provided gr. one of them massacred, such outrages, violence and murders the aforementioned. Obiecquas has made several remarks about ours, without anyone having had the opportunity to resent them, since they are located in the inaccessible mountains, to do so, as a suitable opportunity now seems to have arisen. Therefore, His E. proposes to the deceased gentlemen and the other members of this assembly that it would not be appropriate to express justifiable resentment about this, since a suitable opportunity now seems to have arisen, on which proposal this matter has been taken into deliberation, so that, after the foregoing considerations, it has been found good and understood to be absolutely necessary to prevent all further murder, robbery, and public violence, which in the course of time could be undertaken even more by the said nation against the Egyptian Company and the good settlers here, to send 20 military men under the command of the admiral of this garrison there to fetch the aforementioned Captain Claes with the Company's cattle and to consort with the Soeswaese nation and at one time speculate at a suitable opportunity to entice the said Obiecquas to theft of the cattle and to present them as open enemies of the Egyptian Company. to receive and resist so much that they forget their return,160 trusting that if any of them perish or fall into our hands, they will remember them in such a way in the future.
Thus resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] JOAN HENDRICS THIM.
[Signed:] S. SCHORER.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] JN. BABTIST.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
The Commander of the Stel de Raadt, reinforced by Commander Joan Hendrick Thim159 and the Commander of the present return ships, Steven Schorer, having had conscripted, his E. comes to deduce that the Company had entered into a certain conditional contract about four months ago with a certain captain of the Soeswaese nation, colloquially known to us as Claes, to brutally harass the King's Company at the distant Hottentoose nation for the money given to him for that purpose, in order to prevent the heavy fines that the King's Company would incur. had previously to carry a certain number from our garrison to perform this task, to send them inland & a. following which, so we have already been provided with 200 fine horned animals from the country back here by the same, and his E. has today again obtained news that the aforementioned captain has now again sent a number of 197 fine animals for the E. Comp. had negotiated with whom he had already been on his way to bring him here, but through some of his men, sent beforehand to discover the safety of the passages, obtained knowledge that the Obiecquae nation had stationed itself on the passages to plunder his Compan's cattle, whereby he had been tempted to return to his corals, and considering the aforementioned Obiecquaes are a nation that treats them with plunder, and recently some citizens with our license went inland to be allowed to shoot manatees to subdue their families, attacked them at the Elephants River, and took away all their animals to the number of 16 pieces, provided gr. one of them massacred, such outrages, violence and murders the aforementioned. Obiecquas has made several remarks about ours, without anyone having had the opportunity to resent them, since they are located in the inaccessible mountains, to do so, as a suitable opportunity now seems to have arisen. Therefore, His E. proposes to the deceased gentlemen and the other members of this assembly that it would not be appropriate to express justifiable resentment about this, since a suitable opportunity now seems to have arisen, on which proposal this matter has been taken into deliberation, so that, after the foregoing considerations, it has been found good and understood to be absolutely necessary to prevent all further murder, robbery, and public violence, which in the course of time could be undertaken even more by the said nation against the Egyptian Company and the good settlers here, to send 20 military men under the command of the admiral of this garrison there to fetch the aforementioned Captain Claes with the Company's cattle and to consort with the Soeswaese nation and at one time speculate at a suitable opportunity to entice the said Obiecquas to theft of the cattle and to present them as open enemies of the Egyptian Company. to receive and resist so much that they forget their return,160 trusting that if any of them perish or fall into our hands, they will remember them in such a way in the future.
Thus resolved in the Castle of Good Hope, date above.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] JOAN HENDRICS THIM.
[Signed:] S. SCHORER.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] JN. BABTIST.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. and Sects.
Original Dutch transcription
avonts te ses uren.158
Den Commandeur van der Stel den Raadt, versterckt met den Commandeur Joan Hendrick Thim159 en den Commandeur der present ter rheede leggende retourscheepen, Steven Schorer, hebbende doen convoceeren, soo comt sijn E. daer in te deduceeren hoe dat ‘s Comp. wegen voor omtrent 4 maenden met seecker capiteijn van de Soeswaese natie, bij ons in de wandelingh genaamt Claes, was aengegaen seecker conditioneel contract om voor d’E.Compe. bij de verdre aff gelegen Hottentoose natie voor toebacq die hem ‘s Comps. wegen daer toe wert gegeven, groff beestiael te trocqueeren om door dat middel te prevenieeren de swaere ongelden die d’ E.Compe. voor heen heeft moeten dragen met een seecker getal uijt ons garnisoen, om sulcx te verrichten landewaarts aff te senden &a. in nacominge van dien, soo sijn ons door den selve reets 200 schoone hooren beesten uijt ‘t landt herwaarts gebracht en heeft sijn E. op heeden weder kontschap erlanght dat den voorn. captt. nu weder een getal van 197 schoone beesten voor d’ E.Comp. heeft genegotieert, met de welcke om herwaarts te brengen reets op wegh was geweest, dogh door eenige van de sijnen, om de veijligheijt van de passasien t’ ontdecken, voor uijt gesonden, kennisse te rugh erlangt dat de Obiecquase natie haer op de passasien hadden geposteert om hem ‘s Comps.vee aff te rooyen, waer door hij genootsaackt was geworden na sijn coraelen te rugh te keeren, en aengesien d’ voorn. Obiecquaes een natie sijn, die haar met de rooff geneeren, en nogh onlangs eenige borgers met onse licentie landewaarts gegaen, om tot sustentatie haarer familien zeekoeijen te mogen gaen schieten, aen d’ Eliphantsrivier hebben overvallen, en al haar beesten tot een getal van 16 stucx affgenoomen, mitsgr. een der selver gemassacreert, hoedanige outrages, gewelden en moorderijen de voorn. Obiecquas verscheijde maelen omtrent d’ onse hebben gepleeght, sonder dat men tot nogh toe, vermits sij haar in de ontoeganckelijcke gebergten onthouden, occasie is geweest om ons daer over te resenteeren, daer toe nu bequame gelegentheijt scheijnt gebooren, Soo stelt sijn E. de g’assumeerde heeren en d’ verdre leden deser vergaderinge voor off men nu niet behoorden daer over ons reghtvaardigh resentiment te neemen, d’ wijle sigh daer nu bequaeme gelegentheijt toe scheijnt te vertoonen, op welcke gedaene propositie dese saack in deliberatie genoomen sijnde, soo is nae voorgaende overwegen goet gevonden en verstaen ten alderhoogste noodigh te weesen tot voorcoominge van alle verdre moort, roverijen en publiecque gewelden, die bij vervolgh van tijt nogh meerder bij de gemelte natie tegens d’ E.Comp. en d’ goede ingeseetene alhier souden connen werden ondernoomen, 20 militaire onder ‘t oppergesagh van den vendrigh deses garnisoens derwaarts aff te senden om de voorn. capt. Claes met ‘s Comps. vee aff te haelen en met de Soeswaese natie te conjungeeren en met eens op bequame gelegentheijt te speculeeren om de meer gemelte Obiecquas tot den rooff van ‘t vee aen te locken en als openbaare vijanden van d’ E.Comp. te ontfangen en soo danigh te resisteeren dat sij het wederomcomen160 vergeten, in vertrouwe soo maer eenige daer van sneuvelen off in onse handen vervallen, dat sij haar als dan in toecomende van soodanige maniere van dien sullen comen te onthouden.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] JOAN HENDRICS THIM.
[Signed:] S. SCHORER.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] JN. BABTIST.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.
Den Commandeur van der Stel den Raadt, versterckt met den Commandeur Joan Hendrick Thim159 en den Commandeur der present ter rheede leggende retourscheepen, Steven Schorer, hebbende doen convoceeren, soo comt sijn E. daer in te deduceeren hoe dat ‘s Comp. wegen voor omtrent 4 maenden met seecker capiteijn van de Soeswaese natie, bij ons in de wandelingh genaamt Claes, was aengegaen seecker conditioneel contract om voor d’E.Compe. bij de verdre aff gelegen Hottentoose natie voor toebacq die hem ‘s Comps. wegen daer toe wert gegeven, groff beestiael te trocqueeren om door dat middel te prevenieeren de swaere ongelden die d’ E.Compe. voor heen heeft moeten dragen met een seecker getal uijt ons garnisoen, om sulcx te verrichten landewaarts aff te senden &a. in nacominge van dien, soo sijn ons door den selve reets 200 schoone hooren beesten uijt ‘t landt herwaarts gebracht en heeft sijn E. op heeden weder kontschap erlanght dat den voorn. captt. nu weder een getal van 197 schoone beesten voor d’ E.Comp. heeft genegotieert, met de welcke om herwaarts te brengen reets op wegh was geweest, dogh door eenige van de sijnen, om de veijligheijt van de passasien t’ ontdecken, voor uijt gesonden, kennisse te rugh erlangt dat de Obiecquase natie haer op de passasien hadden geposteert om hem ‘s Comps.vee aff te rooyen, waer door hij genootsaackt was geworden na sijn coraelen te rugh te keeren, en aengesien d’ voorn. Obiecquaes een natie sijn, die haar met de rooff geneeren, en nogh onlangs eenige borgers met onse licentie landewaarts gegaen, om tot sustentatie haarer familien zeekoeijen te mogen gaen schieten, aen d’ Eliphantsrivier hebben overvallen, en al haar beesten tot een getal van 16 stucx affgenoomen, mitsgr. een der selver gemassacreert, hoedanige outrages, gewelden en moorderijen de voorn. Obiecquas verscheijde maelen omtrent d’ onse hebben gepleeght, sonder dat men tot nogh toe, vermits sij haar in de ontoeganckelijcke gebergten onthouden, occasie is geweest om ons daer over te resenteeren, daer toe nu bequame gelegentheijt scheijnt gebooren, Soo stelt sijn E. de g’assumeerde heeren en d’ verdre leden deser vergaderinge voor off men nu niet behoorden daer over ons reghtvaardigh resentiment te neemen, d’ wijle sigh daer nu bequaeme gelegentheijt toe scheijnt te vertoonen, op welcke gedaene propositie dese saack in deliberatie genoomen sijnde, soo is nae voorgaende overwegen goet gevonden en verstaen ten alderhoogste noodigh te weesen tot voorcoominge van alle verdre moort, roverijen en publiecque gewelden, die bij vervolgh van tijt nogh meerder bij de gemelte natie tegens d’ E.Comp. en d’ goede ingeseetene alhier souden connen werden ondernoomen, 20 militaire onder ‘t oppergesagh van den vendrigh deses garnisoens derwaarts aff te senden om de voorn. capt. Claes met ‘s Comps. vee aff te haelen en met de Soeswaese natie te conjungeeren en met eens op bequame gelegentheijt te speculeeren om de meer gemelte Obiecquas tot den rooff van ‘t vee aen te locken en als openbaare vijanden van d’ E.Comp. te ontfangen en soo danigh te resisteeren dat sij het wederomcomen160 vergeten, in vertrouwe soo maer eenige daer van sneuvelen off in onse handen vervallen, dat sij haar als dan in toecomende van soodanige maniere van dien sullen comen te onthouden.
Aldus geresolveert in ‘t Casteel d’ Goede Hoop, datum ut supra.
[Signed:] S. v. STEL.
[Signed:] JOAN HENDRICS THIM.
[Signed:] S. SCHORER.
[Signed:] J. CRUSE.
[Signed:] JN. BABTIST.
[Signed:] A. DE MAN, Rt. en Sects.