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The Vereenigde Oost-Indische Where to See Explorers
Compagnie (VOC) and Colonizers
Several small trading companies
joined in 1602 to form the Dutch Mossel Bay’s museum
East India Company (VOC). It was com plex houses a replica
granted a charter to trade, draw up of Bartolomeu Dias’s caravel
treaties and maintain an army and a (pp240–41), as well as the
fleet. The VOC was dissolved in 1798. old milkwood tree in which
passing sailors would leave
Explorers’ Routes messages for their fellow
Dias 1488 Da Gama 1498 mariners. The Castle of
Beads and trinkets Autshumao, leader of the Good Hope in Cape Town
Cape Colony 1795 were offered as gifts local Strandlopers (a people (pp130–31) is South Africa’s
to the Khoi. liv ing near the sea who ate oldest surviv ing structure.
mainly fish and mussels) had
been taken to Java, Indonesia, The Huguenot Memorial
by the British in 1631. He had Museum in Franschhoek
a basic know ledge of English (p204) honours the French
and was able to negotiate heritage of the town and
with the Dutch. contains antique furniture
and paintings. Early colonial
Animal skins were worn by the artifacts are on display
native people of the Cape. at the Iziko Slave Lodge in
Cape Town (p128–9).

The De Kat Balcony, at the
Castle of Good Hope in Cape
Town, was designed by sculptor
Anton Anreith.

Superior Weaponry
Matchlock rifles secured
the settlers’ advantage over The French
the clubs and throwing Huguenots
spears of the Khoi, and the Fleeing from
bows and poi soned arrows religious
used by the San. persecution in
France, about
200 Huguenots
arrived at the
Almond Hedge Cape of Good
A remnant of the hedge that was Hope in 1688.
planted to discourage unauthorized They were
trading with the Khoi can be seen assigned farms around
at Kirstenbosch National Botan ical Franschhoek (see pp204–5), where
Garden (see pp164–5). they planted vineyards.

Maria de la Quellerie
1652 Jan van Riebeeck 1693 Sheik Yusuf is exiled to the Cape
1594 Portuguese and his wife, Maria de after instigating a rebellion in Java. His
barter with Khoi in la Quellerie, arrive in kramat (shrine) near Faure (Western Cape)
Table Bay Table Bay is revered by Muslims
1600 1650 1700 1750
1658 War against
1608 The Dutch Khoi follows cattle 1688 Huguenot 1713 Smallpox epidemic kills
barter with Khoi raids and killing of refugees settle unknown hundreds of Khoi, as
clans for food settlers at the Cape well as many white settlers

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