| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In the mid-1670s the Heren XVII instituted a series of reforms to redress the current state of affairs in the East, especially in an attempt to control abuses, most notably smuggling and private trading harmful to the Company, and to introduce austerity measures.98 It is therefore no coincidence that it was against this specific wider background that the Cape authorities
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