community
Dutch Mariners
Parent: Dutch / VOC Cape
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1590sEnglish and Dutch ships begin calling regularly at Table Bay1590sKhoekhoe communities trade livestock and goods with foreign marinersLate sixteenth centuryThe Cape becomes a recurrent provisioning node on the route to Asia4 August 1595Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches São Brás6 August 1595Claimed agreement between Dutch sailors and local Khoekhoe near Mossel Bay1601Joris van Spilbergen anchors in Table Bay1647–1648Nieuwe Haerlem survivors maintain a temporary Cape campMarch 1647Nieuwe Haerlem wrecked in Table Bay1649Janssen and Proot recommend a VOC station at the Cape1686Stavenisse wrecked on the south-eastern coast