For the two Christian children which he hath brought with him, an Indian child is given him, being a little girl, and three pieces of cloth, with which he was content. .In the afternoon, Jeronimus Ebbing, Nicolaes Meyer and Frederick the Hon!e Company's late carpenter, went down unescorted to the Redoubt, with six wagon loads of grain, not being willing to wait for the writings and letters which should be sent by them to the Heeren Director General and Council of N. Netherland ; and the Skipper Lucas Andriessen, also, said that he would not wait for the Director General's nor any man's letters but be off, as the wind was fair.*

* Capt. Cregier now resumes and concludes the Journal.--Ep.

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19th ditto. About three o'clock in the afternoon we started from the Manhatans for the Esopus in the Hon»!¢ Company's Yacht, with a W. S_ west wind ; arrived that night at Ta[ppan]- hook,! where we cast anchor as it was calm and the ebb was running against us.

Q0th ditto. Weighed anchor about eight o'clock and drifted upward with the flood, but about 10 o'elock the wind came up from the North--so that we could make sail and weathered the Highland to day, where we came to anchor anew, as the flood was again gone; saw an Indian paddle across the river in a canoe, but he was a full half mile from us. Nothing else occurred to day.

21st ditto. The flood set in about two hours before day ; ran through the Highlands; having got through which, we caught a southern breeze but at day break it became calm again; so ran by the Kamer and arrived this night about 10 o'clock at the mouth of the Esopus Kill. Despatched a man up with a note to Ensign Nyssen to send down some wagons in the morning with an escort to convey up the Hon>le Company's supplies which were sent for the garrison.