are in
New Netherland two kinds of marcasite, and mines of white and yellow
quicksilver, of gold, silver, copper, iron, black lead and hard coal.
It is supposed that tin and lead will also be found; but who will seek
after them or who will make use of them as long as there are not more
people?

(1) Arent Corssen. Van der Donck says that he and Kieft saw
an Indian painting his face with a shining mineral. They had
it assayed, and it proved to contain gold. Arent Corssen,
sent to Holland with a bag of it, embarked early in 1646 in
the "great ship" of New Haven, Captain George Lamberton, for
whose return into the harbor as a phantom ship, months
afterward, see Cotton Mather's _Magnalia_, I. 84 (ed. of
1853), and Longfellow's poem, "The Phantom Ship."

(2) In August, 1647, some months after Stuyvesant's arrival,
Kieft sailed for Holland. With him sailed his enemy Domine
Bogardus, and the chief victims of his and Stuyvesant's
persecution, Kuyter and Melyn. The ship was wrecked on the
Welsh coast. Kieft was drowned; his opponents escaped.

Fuller's earth is found in abundance, and [Armenian] bole; also white,
red, yellow, blue and black clay very solid and greasy, and should
be suitable for many purposes; earth for bricks and for tiles,
mountain-chrystal, glass like that of Muscovy,(1) green serpentine stone
in great abundance, blue limestone, slate, red grindstone, flint, paving
stone, large quantities of all varieties of quarry stone suitable for
hewing mill-stones and for building all kinds of walls, asbestos and
very many other kinds applicable to the use of man. There are different
paints, but the Christians are not skilled in them. They are seen
daily on the Indians, who understand their nature and use them to
paint themselves in different colors. If it were not that explorers are
wanting, our people would be able to find them and provide themselves
with them.

(1) Mica.

Of the Americans or Natives, their Appearance, Occupations, and Means of
Support.

The natives are generally well set in their limbs, slender round the
waist, broad across the shoulders, and have black hair and dark eyes.
They are very nimble and fleet, well adapted to travel on foot and to
carry heavy burdens. They are foul and slovenly in their actions, and
make little of all kinds of hardship; to which indeed they are by nature
and from their youth accustomed. They