ll consider, hypocritical, treacherous, vindictive; brave
and obstinate in self-defence, in time of need right resolute to die.
They seem to despise all the torments that can be inflicted on them
without once uttering a sigh--go almost naked except a lap which hangs
before their private parts, and on the shoulders a deer skin or a
mantle, a fathom square, of woven Turkey feathers or peltries sewed
together. They now make great use of duffel cloths, blue or red, in
consequence of the frequent visits of the Christians. In winter they
make shoes of deer skins, manufactured after their fashion. Except their
chiefs, they have generally but one wife whom they frequently change
according to caprice; she must do all the work, as well corn-planting
as wood-cutting and whatever else is to be done. They are divided into
various nations. They differ even in language, which would be altogether
too long to be narrated in this short space. They dwell together in
tribes, mostly of one consanguinity, over which commands a chief who is
general and is generally called Sackema, possessing not much authority
and little advantage, unless in their dances and other ceremonies. They
have no knowledge at all of God, no divine worship, no law, no justice;
the strongest does what he pleases and the youths are master. Their
weapons are the bow and arrow, in the use of which they are wonderful
adepts. They live by hunting and fishing in addition to maize which the
women plant.

BY WHOM AND HOW NEW NETHERLAND WAS PEOPLED.

The subjects of the Lords States General had for a considerable time
frequented this country solely for the purpose of the fur trade. Then,
in the year 1623, the Chartered West India Company caused four forts to
be erected in that country--two on the River Mauritius and one on
each of the other [rivers]; the biggest stands on the point where the
Mauritius River begins, and the other one,(1) mentioned heretofore,
which their Honors named New Amsterdam; and six and thirty leagues
upwards another called Orange. That on the South River is called
Nassauw and that on Fresh River, the Good Hope. The Company has since
continually maintained garrisons there. In the beginning their Honors
had sent a certain number of settlers thither, and at great expense had
three sawmills erected, which never realised any profit of consequence,
on account of their great heaviness, and a great deal of money was
expended for the advancement of the cou