Author: CHENU DE CHALEZAC, Guillaume.
Title: Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the 'French boy'. The narrative of his experiences as a Huguenot refugee, as a castaway among the Xhosa, his rescue with the Stavenisse survivors by the Centaurus, his service at the Cape and return to Europe, 1686-9. Edited by Randolph Vigne.
Description: Cape Town, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXII,174 pp.Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 22. - The 15-year-old 'French boy' was wrecked on he Ciskei coast in 1687, and spent a year living in the household of a Xhosa chief. The worlds of the Huguenot diaspora, the great days of Indian Ocean trading, the Cape's pivotal position in the struggle for mastery, and the awakening interest of the Dutch in the 'Terra de Natal' form a many-layered basis to this first full account of the Xhosa and their way of life since European settlement in South Africa began.

Keywords: Africa Riebeeck Society South Africa VOC Africa VOC Dutch East India Company