Notes on the So-called ‘“‘ Post Office Stone.” 205 
presentation to the Cape Museum on a niche being prepared for its 
reception. On the demolition of the wall of the canal,* your corre- 
spondent, who evidently appreciates the value of such relics, will 
doubtless be glad to find that the writer rescued the stone from 
the débris ; but, he regrets to say, not until the Anno Domini had 
been carelessly effaced. The inscription runs as follows :— 
HANDEL. RAE. VAN. INDIEN 
D.MARTINVS. SONCK. FISCVS.” 
JACOB. LODESTEYN, SCHIPPER 
GEARRIVEERT MET SCHIP 
VAN. AMSTERDAM. DEN. 20 MEY 
VERTROCKEN. NAE. BATAVIA. 
DEN. &. TVNY 
“Some few years back, on removing the earth in the street front- 
ing Messrs. Dean and Johnson’s stores for a water leading, a rock 
was laid bare showing the following inscription .— 
(The inscription appears on next page.) 
‘<The latter name was not very perceptible. 
‘In the same neighbourhood many such records exist, the place 
being contiguous to the ancient watering fountain frequented by 
seafaring people, who thus reported their progress, east or west. 
Something similar exists at the present day on a small island in 
Torres Straits, with the addition of provisions for the shipwrecked. 
‘*You are welcome to these lines if you deem them worthy of 
publication. 
al CAM Soak 
The first of these is interesting as being the only complete Dutch 
inscription which I have hitherto come across, and it would be very 
desirable to find out who ‘G. T.”’ was, and what became of the 
stone which he was so carefully preserving, as it never, so far as I 
am aware, reached the Museum. 
ae ae at that time ran down the centre of the Heerengracht, now Adderley 
reet. 
