Thus done and enacted by the Captain Lieutenant and Valiant Council of War in Fort Wiltwyck this 29t» Xber 1663."

Have been down with a party to the river side to bring away the guns and other munitions of war. Nothing else occnrred.

30'h, Sunday. Nothing done as it rained almost the entire day and the kill became again open.

31st. Left the Esopus again in the Hon>!¢ Companys Yacht for the Manhatans, the wind Southerly. Weathered the Long Reach where we came to anchor in the night about twelve o'clock.

1664. 1st January. The wind continuing southerly, tacked to-day as far as the entrance of the Highlands where we anchored about 9 o'clock in the evening; the flood being spent weighed anchor and passed through the Highlands where we again cast anchor.

24. Weighed anchor again, and drifted with the ebb as far down as Tappaen.

34, Having weighed anchor again, drifted down anew with the ebb to the end of Manhatans island, where we made sail about 8 o'clock in the morning, the wind being westerly, and arrived about twelve o'clock.at the Manhatans.

Martin Krecier.

V.

EXTRACTS

FROM A WORK CALLED

BREEDEN RAEDT

AEN DE VEREENIGHDE NEDERLANDSCHE PROVINTIEN. PRINTED IN ANTWERP IN 1649.

TRANSLATED FROM THE DutcH ORIGINAL

BY MR. C.

AMSTERDAM 1850. FR. MULLER.

*,* Inthe year 1649, delegates were sent from New Netherland to Holland to obtain redress of various grievances of which the Colonists of the day complained. A number of representations were made by the complainants as well as by the government. Of these Van der Donck's Vertoogh and Secretary Van Tienhoven's answer, haye been published in the Collections of the N. Y. Hist. Soc., 2d. Ser. ii. The 'Breeden Raet" or Full Information to the United Netherland Provinces, is another of the publications called forth by the same circumstance.