one of his compatriots
received 5,000 and 4,000 gulden respectively.[31]

At the time when Hendrik Carloff seized Cape Corse the English had
there[32] a factory to which they traded from their main fort at
Kormentine.[33] On May 1, 1659, very soon after the Dutch obtained
possession of the place, the English factory with all its goods was
burned by the natives, perhaps at the instigation of the Dutch. The
Hollanders, however, were not without misfortunes of their own, for
after disavowing Smits' contract, the Danes sent a new expedition to
Guinea which seized a hill commanding Cape Corse, on which they built
the fort of Fredericksburg. Furthermore, the Swedes who had been
dispossessed of Cape Corse by the Danes with the assistance of
natives, toward the end of 1660, drove the Dutch out of Cape Corse.
Since the Swedes were insignificant in number the fort very shortly
fell into the control of the vacillating Negro inhabitants.

As soon as the natives obtained possession of Cape Corse they
permitted the English to rebuild their factory at that place. An
agreement was also made by which, upon the payment of a certain sum of
money, the fort was to be surrendered to the English.[34] Since the
Dutch maintained that Cape Corse belonged exclusively to them by
reason of their contract with the Danes, they determined to prevent
the English from obtaining possession of it. Furthermore, in order to
exclude other Europeans from trading to any part of the Gold Coast,
the Dutch declared a blockade on the whole coast, in which Komenda and
other villages as well as Cape Corse were situated. To carry out this
policy they kept several ships plying up and down the coast.

The Dutch then proceeded to capture the following English ships for
endeavoring to trade on the Gold Coast: the "Blackboy," April, 1661;
the "Daniel," May, 1661; the "Merchant's Delight,"[35] August, 1661;
the "Charles," August, 1661; the "Paragon," October, 1661; the
"Ethiopian," January, 1662. In addition to these injuries the Dutch
forbade the English at Kormentine to trade with the factory at Cape
Corse, which warning was no sooner given than the factory was
mysteriously destroyed by fire a second time, May 22, 1661. The
English bitterly complained that this misfortune was due to the
instigation of the Dutch.[36]

In like manner the Dutch captured a Swedish ship and interfered with
the trade of the Danes to their fort of Fredericksburg,[37] which
action greatly