At the Fisher's hook are Pachany^ Wurenecker Warrawannankonckx: In one place, Esopes, are two or three Tribes. The JWa?i/ia^€5 are situate at the mouth. In the interior are also many, as the Maquas. Full fifty miles further are found likewise many villages, aU which come to thls' River to trade from the interior which is very swampy, great quantities of water running to the River, overflowing the adjoining country, which was frequently the cause that Fort Nassau lay under water and was abandoned.

This country now called New Netherland is usually reached in seven or eight weeks from here. The course lies ul";s^,uo'\h'I towards the Canary Islands : thence to the Indian cu^.try. jsiaiuls, then towards the main land of Virginia, steering rigiit across, leaving in fourteen days tlie Bahamas on the left, and the Bermudas on the right hand where tlie winds are variable vdth which the land is made.

Res]>cc :,,g Religion we as yet cannot learn that they liave awy knowledge of God, but there is something similai

Of ii.eir ij2 re pule among them. What they have is set over them by the " Cabal " from ancestor to ancestor. They say tiial mention was made b}' ' 'leir forefathers for many thousand mouns, of good and evil spirits, to whose honor, it is supposed, they burn fires or sacriftws. They wish to stand well with t'le Good spirits j they like exliortations about them. The Ministry of their spiritual affairs is attended to by one they call Kifzifiacka, wliich, I think, is Priest. When any one among them is sick, he visits liim ; sits by him and bawls, roars and cries like one possessed. If a man die, he is laid in the earth without a coHin, witli all his costly garments of skins.