Only two animals died on the passage. This gave great satisfaction to the adventurers, who had ibund the voyage so pleasant.

42 FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW- YORK BY THE DUTCH.

In our preceding Treatise we made mention of New Netherland and its colony planted by the West India Compa- 1526. jiy situate in Virginia on the River, called by the

Of the Colony •' ' '^ '

of N. ivetber- j^i-ench Mc7itaiayie, and by us, Mauntms. and that some

.and. o y %/ J /

families were sent thither, which now increased to two hundred souls ; and afterwards s©me ships, one with horses, the other with cows, and the third hay ;. two months afterwards a fleet was equipped, carrying sheep, hogs, wagons, ploughs and all otlier implements of husbandry.

These cattle were, on tlieir arrival, first landed on Nut Island,

t]]rce miles up the Eiver, where tliey remained a day or ihe Cattle, or two. There being no means of pasturing them there,

tliey were sliippcd in sloops and boats to the Manhatesy right opposite said Island. Being put out to pasture here, they throve well, but afterwards full twenty in all died. Tlie cause of this was tliat they had eaten something bad from an uncullivated soil. But they went in the middle of September [1625] on new grass, as good and as long as could be desired.

Tlie Colony was planted at this time, on the JSIanhahs where

a Fort was staked out by Master Kryn Frederycke an Of Fort Am- Ensfincer. It wiU be of large dimensions. The sliip