To the Second interroye hee sayeth, that the said shippe arrived att Munhaddons fort in :

Hutsons river uppon or about the thirteenth day of Aprill last past, where all the said shippes Companye (excepte one boye) were commannded to come on shoare att the said fforte. And after the said shippe goinge further upp in the said river to trade with the natives of those places, for beaver and furrs. This exadiate and his precontest William Fford and some others

of the said shippes Companye, beinge in trade with the Indians neere fort Oramia, another fort, belonging to the Dutch. They were by the Dutch forbidden to trade there and ;

afterwards the Governor of the named Master Huntum came accompanyed with other fort,

Dutch into the Challopp, belonginge to the William, and rowed the said shallopp upp to the place, where Jacob Elkins and otlier of the said shippes companye hat pitched theire tent, and were in trade with the Indians for beaver and furrs. And as they wente up in the saide

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : II. 77'

shallopp, they sticked greene bowes all about her, and drancke strongwaters, and sounded theire trumpett in a triumphinge manner over the Engiishe. And when they came upp to the said tent, they would not suffer the said Jacob Elkins (whoe was well knowne both to the Dutch and to the Indians) to trade there; but pulled downe a part of his tente, and inforced the said factor to send part of the goodes, which he had landed for trade, in the said shalloppe abord the said shippe the William, and the rest of the said goodes together with the said factor; and the rest of the English, which were there on shoare. The Dutch carryed in theire owne boate, abord the said shippe (and as he hath heard) did beate some of the Indians for tradinge with the Engiishe; and hee also sayeth, that the said Dutch, goinge abord the said shippe the William, weighed her anchors, and commannded her Companye to departe from thence.