of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 353 



gent and ready application to the Company's work; in the 

 same manner as he some months before allowed the coporal, 

 Joost van der Laak, to resume his seat in the Council. 



During this time the ship Phoenix arrived with the Junior 

 Merchant Jacob Ryniersz ; who, by a Resolution of Council, 

 was appointed second in command, and successor to Van Rie- 

 beck, in case of death or otherwise.* The Resolution on this 

 subject gives us an idea of the progress made during the last 

 6 months, and says "that matters were already brought into 

 good or,der, so that the Company's ships touching here would 

 generally be well supplied with refreshment (the fruits of great 

 industry), and that it would be, therefore, lamentable, if the 

 Settlement were lost by the want of able persons." 



On the 20th, the Chaplain's child, born on the 6th June 

 last year, was christened. On the same day the Holy Sacra- 

 ment of the Lord's Supper was, for the second time, adminis- 

 tered by the Minister Trunlus, who came in the Phoenix. 



We find nothing further remarkable in the Diary, except 

 renewed complaints that the wild animals had destroyed some 

 of the sheep, and all the poultry. And before the end of the 

 month, the only circumstance in the Records of any interest, 

 relates to the first marriage lawfully contracted and solemnized 

 here. The Resolution of Council on this subject, reads as 

 follows :t 



" Saturday, 30th August, in the year 1653, Adolphus ten 

 Bengevoort, of Amsterdam, boatswain, bachelor, and Zanne- 

 kin Willems, also of Amsterdam, spinster, both on board the 

 Flute King David, bound to India, requesting permission to 

 enter into the Holy state of Matrimony, according to the pro- 

 mises which they had made to each other ; the Council, assist- 

 ed by the principal persons belonging to the said ship, ask 

 them if they are betrothed or engaged to any other person, 

 and being answered in the negative, consent to their being 

 married as soon as possible; and for that purpose allow two 

 banns to be published to-morrow, and the third on Monday 

 next, when the further solemnization will take place before 

 the Council of the Fort Good Hope ;J which is thus hastily, 

 concluded that the ship may not be detained on this account. 



" Thus done," &c &c. 



September. — This month is the most barren of all. The de- 

 parture of the last-mentioned ship, a single death, some little 

 trade in cattle with the Saldanhians, a favourable account of 

 the breeding of his sheep at Robben Island, where they had 



* Resolution Book, 19th August, 1653. 



t Records of Council, 30th August, 1653. 



t As the Minister had departed in the Phcenix on the 25th August tin, 

 marriage was probably celebrated by the Secretary Verburg, in the sam* 

 manner as that of Jacob Ryniersz, on the 23d November following. 



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