VOC return fleet from Batavia under the command of Wollebrant Geleijnssen or Geleijnsz de Jongh (*1594 †1674) that reached Table Bay in March 1648. From l. to r.: the flute Koning van Polen, on which Jan van Riebeeck sailed; the return ship Zutphen; the flute Noordmunster; the return ships Tijger and Rotterdam; the flagship Walvis; and Vrede, Oranje, Enkhuizen, Westfriesland, Delft and Henriette Louise. 1674, (The wrecking of the Haarlem symbolise the earliest contacts between the Netherlands and South Africa )

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