On the 24th, renewing his application, he stated that " proposing to depart by your High Mightinesses' consent, with his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, and maids," he had " in that design packed and shipped all his implements and goods "; but he understood " that the Honorable Directors [of the West India Company] at Amsterdam had forbidden all skippers to receive him, or his, even though exhibiting your High Mightinesses' express orders and consent," " by which he must, without any form of procedure or anything resembling thereto, remain separated from his wife, mother, sister, brother, servants, maids, Beschryvinge family connections, from two good friends, from his merchanNIEUVVNEDERLANT dise, his own necessary goods, ( ©tjclrjtfc [jet tcgnitooo?0!gIj in istact is ) furniture, and from his real estate Begrijpende de Nature, Aerc, gelcgentheyt en vruchtbaerheyt van hetvallen, felvedieLanaldaer t ; mitfgaders de proffij telij ckc enndcrhout der Mcufchen , (fo< in New Netherlands' These and uyt hier fclvcn als van buyten ii ebrachr) gevonden worden. degewenfl K, other strenuous representations ©emanicte m onqfotmtvm cpgmfcfjappm proving unavailing, he was at last • Dantic ©ilomoftc J3atu«l|cri Uanorn 11 anDr. compelled to dispatch his family Ecn byfonder verhael vanden wonderlijcken Aert ende het Weefen der B E V E R S , and effects, remaining himself in Daer Noch By C evoeghe Is tfcnSDifcourfi otorr be gelcrjrwrjcpt ban Nieuw Nederlandc , Holland to await the more favorOlfftticn CHI■ Nieuw Nedcrlandrs Patriot , cn&C COl Nederlander. "Brfchnren doer able disposition of the authorities. i D R I A E N vander D O N C Resigning himself to the situaBeyder Rechten Do&oor, die teghenwooption, he now turned his attention digh noch in Nieuw Nederlant is. to literary labors, which resulted in the composition of a most valuable work on the Dutch provinces in America.