 The tree under which they signed remains to this day.However, the Batavian Governor of the Cape, General Janssens, had not yet surrendered himself and his remaining troops and was following his plan to hold out for as long as he could, in the hope that the French troopships for which he had been waiting for months would arrive and save him.He had only 1,238 men with him, and 211 deserted in the days that followed.