Obiqua mountains: reason for being so called, [189]
Historical Sketches.
du Pré, Hercules: treatment of by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, 230, 232, and [242]
Pretorius, Wessel: treatment of by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, [226]
van Rheede, Hendrik Adriaan, lord of Mydrecht: is sent out by the directors with all the powers of a dictator to correct abuses in Hindostan and Ceylon, and has supreme authority conferred upon him while at the Cape, [177]; from the 19th of April to the 16th of July 1685 he is in Capetown, [178]; and three days before he leaves makes a grant to Commander Simon van der Stel of the farm Constantia at Wynberg as a reward for his good conduct, [179]
Roman Catholics: position of in the Cape Colony under the Dutch government, [182]
Rotterdam, Jan: treatment of by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, [226]; account of his return from banishment, [233]
Saar’s Account of Ceylon: extract from, [174]
de Savoye, Jacob: treatment of by Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel, [229]
Scarcity of timber and fuel at the Cape in 1699: mention of, [187]