Lacking enough sailors it wasn’t able to send a separate
ship towards Malacca, but the stores were sending with the ships destined
towards Bengal. The sulphur could be send with the sloop which was bringing the
trade books.
Source
J. van Goor. Generale Missiven van
Gouverneurs-Generaal en Raden aan Heren XVII der Verenigde Oostindische
Compagnie. Deel X: 1737-1743. The Hague, 2004, p. 876-877.
