A year later he borrowed f 3 000 from a fellow brandy pachter, Claas Meijboom, and it is plausible that they may have been business partners and that Meijboom could have helped him earlier as well.68 Eksteen's main capital outlay would have been his stock of liquor and perhaps some furniture and other equipment to turn a room of his house into a tavern.69 Thus, during 1708-9 he bought at various a