The inhabitants temper the paint with water, and then streak the body ; it produces the most beautiful purple that can any where be found. Their pictures represent canoes, trees and animals, but very indifferently executed. Instead of plumes they bedeck themselves with hair tied with small bands. The hair is of a scarlet colour and surprizing brilliancy which is permanent and ineffaceable by rain. The horses in Vew Netherland are brought from England or from the diocese of Utrecht'. Those trom the bishopric far excel the English. Both are subject to a curious desease whereof many die within afew hours. The same disease attacks horned cattle that are pastured on new ground. But hay grown in salt meadows is found to be a remedy against this. Hogs fatten exceedingly in the woods; those fed on Indian corn give the sweetest pork. Sheep, though very thriving, are not numerous, because the settlements cannot spare any persons to. keep watch against the wolves. Besides, venison is so abundant that the sheep can on this account be the more easily dispensed with. Fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons and other feathered game are, also, easily obtained. . Lions, whose skins the Indians bring to market, are caught on a high mountain, situated fifteen days journey to the southwest.?. Here, also, are many pitch black

Why it failed.

Their ornaments.

Horses.

Sheep.

Lions.

1 In former times, this diocese included the provinces of Overijssel and Utrecht. See, Martinet's Beschryving der Nederlanden, ii., 205, 206