The cause of this is, that they have not experienced any opposition from us this summer, nor lost any of their crops. And, thus, have they circumvented us by a strategem under pretense of peace. Had diligence which is most necessary in time of war, been used, as we requested, with the force of the Blue Cock, during this season, the Indians would, beyond a peradventure, have made advances themselves, and some hope would exist of enjoying, against the arrival of a new Governor, a general peace. But to this very little attention has been paid. The favorable season has been allowed to go by, and people have busied themselves with private quarrels and law suits, with this one and that, especially about sending pearls by Louwrens Cornelissen, skipper of the Maccht vnn Enckhuyze7i, which lasted six weeks, and who on that account has been banished. Through respect for the Director, we shall not rightly speak of the matter which finally appertains to the Lords only to pass on, but so much is said and heard here, and it is our opinion, that had it

not been for the authority of the Director the poor skipper might have fortified himself with divers most respectable certificates ; not only with those which were sent with him but also with divers others. Two guides have recently been called from the North with whom Captain De Vries was sent, on the 22'' instant, with a party on an expedition in that direction. They killed eight* but as the saying is -- " Whenever we lay one enemy low. On the morrow another returns the blow." With those raw and naked soldiers who have resided for so many years in warm climates, we shall have to wade in frost and snow through rivers and creeks but shall probably survive ;