NOTES.
i. Organisation of Dutch East India Company.
General Directory (or Chamber XVII.).
[This consisted of—eight representatives of Chamber (or office) of Amsterdam ; four of Zeeland ; two of the Maas ; two of the North Quarter (Hoorn and Enkhuizen); and one sent by all these alternately except Amsterdam. It met ' at various places in Holland.]
Governor-General and Council of India.
[Sitting at Batavia (in Java), the centre of the Company’s settlements in the East.]
Admirals, Governors, and Commanders
who, with their Councils of Policy, administered the various settlements ©f the Company formed in pursuance of the Charter (1602), which granted a monopoly of the trade of the Netherlands “eastward, of the Cape of Good Hope, or westward of the Straits of Magellan.”
2. Origin of Conflict with the Natives (Hottentots).
Extract from a despatch dated July 29, 1659, of Commander Van Riebeck and Council to the Governor-General and Council, Batavia.
“ The Hottentoos have been again at work . . . the fiscal Gabbema . . . took two . . . killed one . . . one taken prisoner.
“ The said prisoner, who was one of the Caepmans, and spoke tolerable Dutch, being asked why they did us this injury, declared . . . because they saw that we were breaking up the best land and grass, where their cattle were accustomed to graze, trying to establish ourselves everywhere, with houses and farms, as if we were never more to remove, but designed to take for our permanent occupation more and 226