VAN REENEN Jacob &
RIOU Edward
Journal d'un Voyage dans l'interrieur de 'Afrique, fait en 1790 et 1791, par Jaques Van Reenen et autre Colons du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, a la recherche de l'equipage du Grosvenor, vaisseau de la Compagnie des Indes orientales angloise, echoue en 1782 su
Originally printed in an English translation( 1792, 100 copies only) from van Reenen’s Dutch ms. then re-translated back into Dutch ( Leyden,1793) and here thirdly offered in French, but according to Mendessohn with “ some matter not included in the original edition“
Van Reenen lead a party of twelve in order to find the wreck and determine if there were any survivors. They covered new ground and made contact with a tribe the “Hambonaas” who had looked after three girls, apparently saved from the wreck. They wanted to stay until their crops had been harvested and were allowed so to do… their fate is unrecorded.
Mendelssohn Vol. 1 652/3
