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the said yacht here until the above-mentioned vessels should 

 also have appeared here that they might sail together ; 



It has been unanimously approved and resolved ; 



Seeing that we have received no other orders with the 

 aforesaid yacht 



MS. page 25. 



44 Francker," and these are the latest ; 



Although the said cargo of tin, destined for Persia and 

 S,urate, will have no time to lose in order to reach, this year 

 still, the respective markets there for the relief of the 

 embarrassed position of the Company — the said markets 

 being chiefly held in the present month of December, and 

 in January and February — 



to keep the said yacht " Francker " here until the other ships 

 above specified (which we are hourly expecting) shall have 

 arrived here, [and then to send them on together to Goa to 

 the Commander Quast, or to such ports as are specified in 

 the new orders of the East India Company's Directors.] 



Actum Sta. Cruz de Galle, datum ut supra. Jan Thy sen, 

 Marten Vinck, Floris van Castel, Gerrit Moutmaker, Jan van 

 der Laen, Albert Claesz Hooghland, Secretary. 



December 12, 1641. 



MS. page 26. 



Whereas this day our yachts 44 Liefde " and 44 Lecq " (which 

 had come in sight yesterday) have appeared before this bay, 

 and the Ensign Lambert Camholt, coming ashore in the sloop 

 which had shared the expedition, has reported to us that some 

 of the men on board the yacht 44 Liefde " were laid up with 

 illness, and that therefore it were meet they should be 

 provided with some refreshments ; 



the Council having considered that the said yachts have seen 

 no more vessels since the capture of the 44 Malabar Champan " 1 



1 See note on page 335, infra. 



