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Updated: June 23, 2025
On hearing Mynheer Van Wijk's report of the natives the captain became very anxious about Langton. Owen at once volunteered, if Mynheer Van Wijk would provide a boat, to pull along the shore, and ascertain whether he had succeeded or not in getting off to the frigate. Several of the boat's crew offered to accompany him. The rest, including the captain, were too much exhausted to make the attempt.
Again Jacob, shouting from his boat, declared that the boat must have gone down, as not a sign of her appeared. "Perhaps I mistook her position," suggested Owen. "Well, we will push on further," said Mynheer Van Wijk. "Let us give one more hearty shout together." All three, joined by the natives, raised their voices. Just then a faint sound came from the southward.
From time to time Owen continued to shout, so that they should not pass the boat without being discovered. Jacob Leefkens at last rejoined them. "I am afraid she's gone to the bottom," he observed. "Do not say that, Jacob," answered Mynheer Van Wijk. "We will search for them until to-morrow night, if we do not find them before."
"It must be remembered that the witnesses Hugo, Matthijsen, Van Wijk and de Klerk are all accomplices, and therefore their evidence must be received with caution, especially after the curiously minute details they give on some points. It is also worthy of note that Matthijsen was not examined on the fourth charge, though he was present with Kritzinger at the time.
They walked up to the Hôtel des Pays-Bas, which the traveller is informed by its card is situated in the Korte Hoogstraat, wijk No. 287, where Mr. Fluxion desired to see a gentleman who had engaged to meet him there. In one of the public rooms a party were playing cards, drinking, and smoking, and talking Dutch in the most vehement manner.
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