The Reijger was one of three ships along with the Drommedaris and Goede Hoop that carried Jan van Riebeeck and his party to the Cape of Good Hope. They left Texel, in the Netherlands, one hour after sundown on 24 December 1651 on their way to the Cape, to establish a refreshment station for the Dutch East India Company.
On the 5th of April 1652 van Riebeeck on the Drommedaris, as well as the Reijger and De Goede Hoop, caught sight of Table Mountain and set foot on the African continent on 6 April 1652.
Within a week of his landing on 6 April, Van Riebeeck had begun work on the Fort of Good Hope. Reyger is a surname in South Africa, the Netherlands as well as America that means "Herron".
The Wild Olive tree (Olienhoutboom) is an indegenous tree in the Free State and you should see a lot of them in Bloemfontein.