But as many Swedes and Finns to the number at least of vOO were dwelling two or three miles up the river above Fort Clirlsrina, the Swedish governor insisted in the Capitulation t? -.at one Lut'ieran minister should be retained to instruct the })eople in their own tongue. This their request was too easil} grai.tvd 1^' because trouble had broken out at Manhatau v>lt ; ciie Indians, and men required quick despatch, and to lia^t u '^ack to tlie Manhattans to repair matters tliere. 2"^ Because v^e had no ref trmed Preacher to establish there or who underst; ^ d th.eir language.

Now this Lutheran Parson isamanof agodlessjuid s-. . ;!■ us life, a rolling rollicking unseemly carl, who is m >re II- .> .' to look into the wine-can than to pore over the bible, ai.o m u!d rather drink a kan of brandy for two hours than [ leach < iie. and when tlie sap is in the wood then his hands itch and he bredmes

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excessively inclined t6 figlit wliomsoever he meets. The commandant at fort Casinir, named Jan Paulussen Jacquet, brother in law of D^ Casparo Carpentier, told us that it happened in the Spring that this Parson was tippling witli a smith and being full of brandy they came to fisticuiis and beat each others lieads black and blue ; yea, that the smith tore all tlie clothes from the Dominies back so that the good Dominie had to withdraw privately and suddenly and become somewhat recovered before any of liis flock liad sought explanation the one from the other. Sed hoc parergiccos.