Danish ships: in 1619 first visit Table Bay, [168]
Dassen (Conies) Island: in 1605 receives its name, [156]
Davis, John: in 1598 sails to India in the Dutch service, [123]; in 1601 visits Table Bay on his second voyage to India, [155]; and again in 1605 on his third outward passage, ib.; in December of this year he is killed by Japanese pirates, ib.
Dendermonde: on the 17th of August 1584 is reconciled to Philippe II, and is thereafter lost to the patriot cause, [98]
Deventer: on the 29th of January 1587 is betrayed by Sir William Stanley to Spain, [104]; on the 10th of June 1591 is recovered by the patriots, [109]
Dias, Estevão: career of, 36 and [37]
Dirkszoon, Cornelis: in October 1573 gains a great victory in a naval battle with a Spanish fleet, [69]
Disastrous encounters with Hottentots in Table Valley, [163]
Dollart, the: in 1277 is formed, [43]
Don John of Austria: in 1576 is appointed by Philippe II governor-general of the Netherlands, [82]; on the 3rd of May 1577 takes the oaths of office at Brussels, [84]; administration of, 84 to [88]; on the 1st of October 1578 dies, [88]