Fragments of a Dutch East India Company cash book, 'Casteel de Goede Hoop'

Letter from J. Speck, Table Bay, to the Administrators of the Dutch East India Company, Rotterdam.

Supports the claim of passenger, Samuel Jan H. van Nimmegen, to be paid wages for acting as steersman on board the 'Prins Willem' from Batavia to Table Bay; van Nimmegen was an old employee of the Company, fallen from favour because his ship had been captured by the Portuguese and sunk.