Publisher's original blue paper wraps.
341pp. Some wear to the spine, otherwise in good condition.
'The period embraced by this journal covers the tenure of office by Governors Adriaan van der Stel, Johan D'Ableing, Louis van Assemburg, William Helot, the Marquis de Chavonnes, Gysbert van Noodt, Johan de la Fontaine, and Adriaan van Kervel (in part), and the contents afford an interesting description of everyday life of the Cape Colony at this period, together with a record of the more important events occuring during a part of the eighteenth century, of which, according to Mr. Leibbrandt, little is known - much less that is known of the times of Van Riebeeck and his immediate successors. Among the more noteworthy matters alluded to in the journal are the wreck of the Merestein; a naval fight between Dutch and French squadrons in April 1706; the disputes between the burghers of Stellenbosch and their Landdrost; the recalls of Governor W. Adriaan van der Stel, the "Secunde" Elsevier, the Rev. P. Kalden, and the Landdrost Johann Starrenburgh; together with an account of the friction between the Council and the Rev. I. F. le Boucq.' - Mendelssohn Vol.I., page 878
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