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[[File:Salt_Island_Wikipedia_210115.PNG|th … [[File:Salt_Island_Wikipedia_210115.PNG|thumbnail|350px|Dja d'Sal, one of Cape Verde islands, Wikipedia]]
See: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sal,_Cape_Verde Wikipedia entry: Sal, Cape Verde]
- "The island is 35 km long by 12 km wide. It is one of the three sandy eastern islands (Sal, Boa Vista and Maio) of the archipelago, with white sandy beaches and fairly flat. The highest elevation of 408 m is at Monte Grande. Serra Negra has a height of 92 m." (Wikipedia)a Negra has a height of 92 m." (Wikipedia) +
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of the Lords the States of the United Neth … of the Lords the States of the United Netherlands were and are her owners<br />
and saith that on or about the fifth of July 1654 new stile, the said<br />
shipp with her lading of tobacco, stockings, brandewine, hides and<br />
other goods taken in at Madenblick departed from Memblick and<br />
went to Norway and there discharging her said lading, shee reladed<br />
with 74 horses for the accompt of the said owners of the<br />
said shipp to goe therewith to the Charibbe Ilands, and<br />
departed therewith from Norway on the 29th of the same moneth<br />
or thereabouts, and prosecuting her said voyage for the said Ilands<br />
shee tooke in hay and water in the downes for her said horses,<br />
and ariving neare the Barbada's the<br />
Marchant of the said shipp named John Vosse went in her boate<br />
ashore to the English Governour to knowe if hee might trade<br />
there, and the next day hee retourned aboard, and said hee had<br />
gotten leave pf the Governour to trade there, and certaine English<br />
that came with him affirmed asmuch, and this hee saith was<br />
on or about the 17th of September 1654, and having gotten such<br />
license the said shipp went in and came to an anchor neare the<br />
Bridge at the Barbada's, and there traded and sold and delivered<br />
her said horses, and having soe donne the said shipp was taken<br />
to freight there by the English to goe to the Salt Ilands or Cape<br />
de ffarse Ilands to fetch asses to the Barbada's, whether accordingly<br />
shee went and fetcht 38 asses and delivered them at the Barbadas<br />
and shortly after such deliverie, the English fleete under the<br />
command of Governour Penn came thither, and seized the said<br />
shipp and turned the master and company ashore to shift for<br />
themselves, and this hee saith was in the moneth of ffebruary<br />
last, and that in and by the said seizure hee saith the said<br />
owners were deprived of and have lost the said shipp (which was<br />
carried by the English for hispaniola) and the profitt if their<br />
said voyage, all which hee knoweth being one of her company<br />
and going all the said voyage in her and seeing the premisses<br />
soe donne, and that from thence hee got passage in the shipp<br />
of [?Mr] [?Landon] of the Ile of Wight for England. And<br />
saith the said shipp had not traded at the English plantations,<br />
nor sold or received any goods there otherwise then as aforesaid<br />
And that the said shipp tackle and furniture was worth about six thousand<br />
gilders, and hee beleeveth the said owners by the losse thereof<br />
and of the advantage of the whole voyage to be damnified<br />
fiftie thousand gilders. And otherwise hee cannot depose.
Repeated before doctor Godolphin.
Pieter Jansen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]lphin.
Pieter Jansen [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE] +
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