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

which has returned home tliis month (Nov.)' brings samples of all the different sorts of produce there. Tlie cargo consists of 7246 Beavers, 675 Otter skins. 48 Minx, 36 Wildcat, and various" other sorts; several pieces of oak timber, and hickory.

The counting house there is kept in a stone-building, thatched

witli reed ; tlie other houses are of tiie bark of trees. Ti.o ■.^<:M^M -£'^c\i has lils owu liousc. Tlic Director and Koopman

live togetiier ; there are thirty ordinary houses on tlie eiist side of tlie river wliicli runs nearly north and south. The Hon^'«. Pieter Minuit is Director there at present ; Jan Lp mpo Schout [Slieriff] ; St^bastiaen Jansz Crol and Jan Huyck, Comforters of the Sick, who, whilst awaiting a clergyman, read to the Commonalty there on Sundays, from teits of Scripture with the Comment. Francois Moleraaecker is busy building a horse-mill, over whicli shall be constructed a spacious room sufficient to ac-

1 Thfi Aim« of Amsfp.nlam, sailod from Hip Manli.iUans on '23d Septr. 1626.