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Excerpt from Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope: The Defense of Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel Without being charged by his superiors with misconduct 01 negligence, either in the affairs of the Company or the fulfilment of their orders. That dining the first six years, not a single person ator near the Cape showed the least dissatisfaction, or made any complaint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.