community
English Mariners
Parent: British / imperial
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Events
18 June 1580Francis Drake rounds the Cape1590sEnglish 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 Asia1 August 1591James Lancaster barters livestock with Khoekhoe at Table Bay1 November 1601James Lancaster's East India Company fleet rounds the Cape1615Attempt to leave English convicts at the Cape failsJune 1620English captains proclaim Table Bay for King James I1631Autshumato taken to Batavia and trained as an intermediary