"Dit dansen duurt tot aan den dag, wanneer ieder zijne hangmat gaat ophangen, en een poos slapen. Ondertusschen bevond ik hier het spreekwoord waarachtig, dat een dronke Vrouw een opene deur is: want niet zo haast waren de herssenen door den drank beneveld, en den avond gevallen, of alle schuilhoeken wierden paarhokken; waar na ze zich stilletjes weder aan den dans voegden, even of ’er niets was omgegaan."

"Kakkebaretje [Shit Hat]"

"Men zegt, dat bloohartige menschen in ’t gemeyn verraders zijn. Daar zijn verscheyde Natien, die met het Volk van deze Colonie verkeerren, ende Koopmanschap drijven; maar d’eigene Inwoonderen van ’t landt zijn Charibes, ofte Canibalen, die ook wel de meeste in ’t getal zijn van de genen die deze Landen bewoonen; ende die hebben haar selven verspreyt meest in alle Eylanden daar omtrent, ende op het vaste land langs de Riviere van d’Amazones aan, tot aan die van Oronoque."

"From Mohammedanism (which for centuries she [i.e., Aceh] is reputed to have accepted) she really only learnt a large number of dogmas relating to hatred of the infidel without any of their mitigating concomitants; so the Acehnese made a regular business of piracy and man-hunting at the expense of the neighboring non-Mohammedan countries and islands, and considered that they were justified in any act of treachery or violence to European (and latterly to American) traders who came in search of pepper, the staple product of the country. Complaints of robbery and murder on board ships trading in Acehnese parts thus grew to be chronic."

"And as we are making our position stronger every day, it is to be hoped that they (Khoisan) will feel less inclined to disturb us, provided, however, that a strict watch be kept on everything and we remain on our guard in every direction, continuing with diligence at the fences and other defensive forts..."

"[T]hat our prosperity may never forget God's mercies shown to us, but always keep them in grateful memory."

"All the trouble began in 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape."

"Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them."

"Be careful in always having a good beacon fire, as the signals entirely depend upon it, that the ships may enter the bay in safety"."

"You shall also keep your fires burning if the ships are blown back by contrary winds, but if the ships are foreign or not Dutch (onduitsch) you shall at once extinguish your fire."