When the Hon'^i® Lambrecht van Twenhuyzen, once a skipper' , had given them a big dog, and it was presented to them on ship-board, tliey were very much afraid of it; calling it, also, a Sachem of dogs, being the biggest. The dog, tied with a rope on board, was very furious against them, they being clad like beasts witli skins, fur he thought tliey were game ; but when they gave him some of their bread made of Indian corn, which grows there, he learned to distinguish tliem, that they were men.

There are oaks of very close grain ; yea, harder tlian any in

in tills country, as thick as three or four men. Tiiere

Products, is Red-vvood which being burned, smells very agreeably;

when men sit by the fire on benches made from it, the

whole house is perfumed by it. When they keep watcli by

night against their enemies, then they place it [the fire] in tl^e

centre of their huts, to warm their feet by it ; they do not sit,

then, up in the tree, but make a hole in the roof, and keep watch

there, to prevent attacks.

Poisonous plants have been found there, wliich should be

studied by those who have a fancy to cultivate land

HeudrickCiu-istiaensen carried thither, by order of his

employers, Bucks, and Goats, also Rabbits, but they were found

1 Trailed as early as I6M3 15, to this country, under a siiecial charter, Sc« Hurt. N» Nelherland L, 74 et ve'ff.