3996 (1661-1662)

The papers in this volume have no folio numbers. Related pages were bundled and each bundle given a number, and subsequently indexed by bundle number in the table of contents. This can make finding individual documents more challenging.
Several bundles with maps, namely bundles 25 and 26 of the first set of indexes and bundle 10 of the second set are not present in this bound volume. They may have been removed to the map collections.
Bundles 27 and 28 were not located in this volume.
Image 1095 is a copy of the appointment of Zacharias Wagenaar as provisional commander of the Cape of Good Hope by the governer-general, Joan Maetsuycker, and the council of India in Batavia. Zacharias Wagenaat substitutes Gerrit van Harn who was originally appointed by the directors of the VOC to replace Jan van Riebeek as commander at the Cape, Gerrit van Harn died during the voyage to the Cape before he could fulfil his new role and was buried in the island of St. Vincent.
Images 1089 and 1093 is a letter by Zacherias Wagenaar to the same directors after accepting his new commission as provisional commander of the Cape of Good Hope.

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