Elsenburch.i erected at this place, and took great liberties with every one, even with the Company's yachts, or such as would go up the South river for before ;

this fort must they all strike, none excepted, and two men are here sent on board in order to ascertain whence the yatchs or ships come. It is nothing less than searching ; it What right these people have The swede, hwe will probably terminate in that. to do so, we know not; we cannot comprehend how servants oi other powers, somu river.

(20) as they represent themselves, but by what commission is not known here, make themselves so much masters, and assume authority, over land and property belonging to and possessed by others and sealed with their blood, independent of the Charter. The Minquas Kill is the first up the river, and there the Swedes have built Fort Christina.^ This place is conveniently situated, for large vessels can lie

right against the bank, to load and unload. Amongst the rest, is a place up the 8iuf,'[%1t''eMn" o*!!

river called Schuylkill, a fine navigable stream which also was heretofore, in ^0''°" "' °" p"* possession of the Netherlanders; but what is its condition? The Swedes now have it also mostly under their control. There are, moreover, several beautiful and pleasant islands and other places, heretofore also in the occupation of the Netherlanders and still bearing the names they gave, and various other circumstances, which afford sufEcient and conclusive evidence that the river belongs to the Netherlanders and not to the Swedes. Their beginnings can of themselves convict them ; for one Minnewits, who had previously been Director at the Manhatans for the West India Company, came to this river eleven years ago -- in the year 1638 -- with the ship de KalmerdeuteP and the yacht de Vogelgryp, representing, on the cpntrary, to the Netherlanders who resided at the river on behalf of the Company and of Mr.