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Annals of the South African Museum. 



DC Orangieboom, Postpaard, Eendragt, W<ilchi'irn, Enkhuysen, Het 

 Wapcn van Zetland, Eenhoorcl, and Fortu.yn. 



It is plain that the graved remnants of words cannot apply to 

 the names of the ships ; and the second inscription graved across 

 the first seems to indicate that it is anterior to the date 1618. 



Stone XV. 



The second inscription is very fragmentary, that is to say it is 

 only one part of the original, but the words left are mostly very 

 legible. 



FIG. 19. 

 37 cm. x 9 cm. 



15. PIETER DIRCKSK DE. . . H. E. R. CORNELIS FRAMS I. O. 

 MMET STOLCK EN . VAN ROTTER. 



We find in Valentyn : "After the amendment of the Company's 

 (Oost Ind. Comp.) Charter dated 13 March, 1623, it pleased the 

 States General to do as much injury as possible to the Spaniards 

 and Portuguese in the South Seas also, by sending out a fleet of 

 eleven ships under Admiral Jacob 1'Heremite and his junior geen 

 Huigen Schapen Ham, which was called the Nassau Fleet. Of 



