32 A VIOLENT SALUTATION. [169I. 



having past through the middle of thirty Persons, and brusli'd 

 a little the Beard of tlie Serjeant, who return'd us our Bullet. 

 We were chid for our Negligence, and that was all. I 

 remember to have read in LamharcVs^ Description of the 

 County of Kent in Englancl, a like violent Salutation of a 

 Bullet which was shot thro' the Palace of Qrecmvich, and 

 whistl'd in the First Queen Marys Ears. Kings don't love 

 such sort of Honours, and our Serjeant was of the same mind 

 with Kings. 



The next day we went to deliver our Letters to the 

 Governour,^ who check'd us for the Blunder we had made in 

 entring the Port, and indeed we deserv'd it. However, he 

 receiv'd us very civilly out of respect to the Treaty^ Monsieur 



1 Lambard's Pcramhulation of Kent, 1576, p. 339. " One accident 

 more touching tiiis house, and then an ende ; it hapened in the reigne 

 of Qucene Marie., that the Master of a Ship, passing by whilest the 

 Court lay there, and meaning (as the manner and dutie is) with saile 

 and shot to honour the Princes presence unadvisedly gaue fyre to a 

 peice charged with a pellet in sted of a tampion, the which lighting on 

 the Palaice wall, raune through one of the jmuie lodginges, and did no 

 further harme." 



2 Herr Simon van der Stel was Commandcur at the Cape from 1679 

 to October 1691, when he was promoted Governor and, in 1692, 

 Gonrveneur en Extraordinaar Raad, till 169P, when he retired to Con- 

 stantia. Herr "Willem Pat was the Militaire Hoofd at the Castle from 

 1689-93. 



3 A few French refugees took service with the Dutch in South Africa 

 before 1685, when the Company decided to send out a French pastor and 

 some Huguenots as colonists, providing free passages and farms without 

 payment as inducements, in order to imjjrove the cultivation of vines and 

 olives at the Cape. In 1688 several parties of French emigrants were 

 dispatched from Holland, whom the Commander, van der Stel, received 

 and treated kindly ; but, in 1689, when these French settlers requested 

 permission to establish a separate church at Drakeustein, he, being 

 anxious to blend the nationalities, contested their right. He therefore 

 viewed with pleasure the project of the Marquis du Quesne for drawing 

 French emigrants to the Island of Mascaregne, as thereby the propor- 

 tion of French refugees introduced into Cape Colony would be lessened. 

 {Cape Quarterly Review, vol. i, p. 385.) 



