Kieft sent for us on the subject of the demanded toll, and left us sitting in the room from eight o'clock until noon, without asking us a question notwithstanding we frequently notified him by the messenger of our arrival and of our being there in waiting to hear what his Honor would please to submit to us, but not a word in explanation did his Honor send us, and leaving the business unfinished we were under the necessity of returning as wise as we went. Was not this, now mocking and scoffing them ? Be it borne in mind that his Honor had sent for us by his messenger. We thus consider our statement uncontradicted. It is also corroborated in Carta, D., the 8"' June, 1644. 6. The agreeing to the Excise is seen by 3 letters, E. F. G.; by the Acts of the IS, 21, 22 June, 1644, and therefore no further declaration is necessary. 7. The misstatements of the Little Book on the subject of the war, which are referred to in the letter. We wish, in regard to Mr. Kieft, that we had committed an error on this point in our communication; but 'tis to be feared that, when compared with other declarations, something strange will be found in it. But we leave this on one side, and refer to our Minister and Cornells van Tienhoven, the Secretary, both of whom read it for the purpose of punctuating it, and who flung it from the table on account of the nonsense they found in it in regard to