Traveled to Zeeland to visit friends in Zierikzee

Date: 
August 18, 1696
L-number: 
L-300
Document: 

Letter L-300 of 26 August 1696 to Frederik Adriaan van Reede

It is now eight days since I was in Zeeland, at the City of Zierikzee, where my friends, to oblige me, took me to the place where many oysters, which are fetched from England, are stored both in running water and in tanks the bottom of which is covered with deal boards, which oysters were brought up from the ground in my presence and offered to me to eat.