Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… The mortality among the slaves was high. On February 3, 1626, Pieter de Carpentier informed the Seventeen that … of Arakan, in turn, complained that he had lost more than 4,000 of the 10,000 slaves he had bought from Bengal; and … The nine tables of Bradlow from as many sources add up to 4,890 names: 1,607 Cape-born and 3,283 born abroad. The …