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Appendix II: VICTUALLING A N D RATIONING
The following survey is based on the Lyste van victualiën en ordre op Rantsoenen, printed
at Amsterdam around 1724 by R. and G. Wetstein, Drukkers van de E.E. Heeren Bewind-
hebbers der Oost-Indische
Compagnie.
This list, a copy of which is held in the coll. Rader-
macher (available at the A.R. A., no. 89 of the collection), was according to the title based
on the resolution of the Heren 17 of 12.12.1695 and on the additions to this resolution of
19.7.1702, 22.7.1706, 18.8.1708, 26.7.1712, 7.8.1713 and 14.6.1724.
The list is intended as an instruction to be kept by all chambers when provisioning ships.
It is pointed out that in supplying bread, meat, bacon, Spanish wine, brandy, butter and
oil, account must be taken of losses due to evaporation and leakage. The supplies are
meant for nine months, except for bread, which should be sufficient for ten months.
(The pound used is the Amsterdam pound of 0.4941 kg).
Brood - bread
175,000pondvooryderhondertman,daarvan'tvoorydermanis4pondterweeke,
'twelck voor 10 maanden kan strekken.
Bread: 175,000 pounds per hundred men, each to receive 4 pounds per week, this being
sufficient for ten months.
Vleesch - meat
For ships sailing between December and
For ships sailing between April and
October:
six barrels of meat of again 540 pounds
March:
12 Vaten vleesch van
suyverbuyten
hondert
man.
omtrent540pond
de vaten voor y der
per hundred men, each to receive
12 barrels of meat of around 540 pounds
nett per one hundred men, each one to
3
receive A pound twice weekly.
Spek -pork
For ships sailing between December and
March:
3000pond vooryder hondert man, een keer
A pound once a week.
For ships sailing between April and
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perweekUpondperman. keerperweekUpondperman.
3000 pounds for every hundred men,
3
once a week A pound per man.
6000 pounds for every hundred men,
3
twice a week /4 pound per man.
Stokvisch en gezoute visch, Somer en Winter eveneens - dried fish and salted fish, summer
and winter as well.
Dried fish and salted fish for ships sailing in summer as well as for those sailing in winter:
500 pounds dried cod, 2/3 of them rondvis and 1/3 lengen (lings) (a type of fish related to
X
cod, eaten as the largest kind of dried cod) per hundred men, each to receive U pound
three times a week for as long as supplies last, 200 pounds of salted fish per hundred men,
each to receive V*pound twice weekly, for as long as supplies last.
3
November:
6000pond voor yder hondert man, twee