Cortemunde, Jan Pietersz.
ADVENTURE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, DECEMBER 1672;
transcribed and edited from the original manuscript in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, by Henning Henningsen;
translated and annotated with additional material by Douglas and Vera Varley.
Cape Town: Friends of the SA Library, 1962.
Cloth spine & pict. paper covered board
Cortemunde's stay at the Cape would have been uneventful had he not got
into an argument with a Burgher whom he injured in a scuffle. To avoid
arrest, he fled to the vicinity of the mouth of the Salt River. Here he had to
deal with wild animals and snakes, as well as extremes of temperature,
before he was found and hauled before the Governor.