friendship." in 1609, was somewhat but his references to their personal appearance are "This day," he says, "many of the people came

Hudson's experience with them, different,

similar.

aboard, some in mantles of feathers, and some in skins of divers sorts of good furs. Some women also came to us with hemp.

They had red copper tobacco pipes, and other things of copper they did wear about their necks."

The Dutch

Wassenaar, Van der Donck, and were generally well-limbed, others, agree slender around the waist, and broad-shouldered ; that they had historians,

that

the natives

eyes, and snow white teeth, resembling ttye Brazilians in color, or more especially " those people who

black hair and

sometimes ramble through Netherland and are called Gipsies ;

"

were very nimble and swift of pace, and well adapted to travel on foot and to carry heavy burthens. " Generally," says one writer,

"the men have no beards, some even pluck it out.

They use very few words, which they previously well consider. Naturally they are quite modest and without guile, but in their way haughty enough, ready and quick witted to comprehend or

As soldiers, they are far from being honorable, but perfidious and accomplish all their designs by treachery ; they also use many stratagems to deceive their ene learn, be it good or bad.

mies, and execute by night almost all their plans that are in any way hazardous. The thirst for revenge seems innate in

them ; they are very pertinacious in self-defense, when they cannot escape ; which, under other circumstances, they like to do ; and they make little of death, wheri it is inevitable, and despise