They then took some planks and pieces of wood, fastened them together and

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having made sails of their shirts, etc., they got at last to the Mainland of England. As these persons were more concerned for their papers than for any thing else, they caused them to be dragged for, and on the third day Joachim Pietersz got a small part of them, which are in being to this day.

C. How people are sometimes buffetted about the world ! How will these persons ever get justice ?

B. According to what they told me, when they arrived in Holland, the Dutch directors much lamented the loss of the ship and its rich cargo, and were doubly pained that while so many fine men were lost, two rebellious bandits should survive to trouble the company with their complaints.

J. Was that all the comfort they got ?

B. That was not all their.comfort, but some of the directors undertook to prevent them from getting a hearing from their High Mightinesses.

J. "Twas better. to send such scoundrels to the devil. Who dared to undertake that ?

B. Those who had always corresponded with those wicked children of Belial, van Beeck Perquin; they got a hearing, - however, and set their affair in such a light before their H. M. that it was resolved to prevent such unrighteous proceedings, dispatched letters of inhibition, ordered Stuyvesant either to appear in person or by proxy, in order to hear his sentence maintained, confirmed or annulled ; or else to await it there, and to that end their H. M. supplied the complainants with all necessary orders, safeguards, acts and instruments.