so thnt a sliip load of provisions amounts to a great Heal among so few people, more especially as mimy farms wliich were devastated by the war, are yet unsown by farmers and laborers and lie waste ; ail which cause want and scarcity. These being noted, as your Noble Mightinesses will furtiier see by the accompanying documents, the Delegates again most humbly turn to your Noble Mightinesses respectfully beseeching your noble Mightinesses to be pleased to hasten the Redress of New Netherland, and to issue and make such order therein as you shall find for the advantage of that country. Which doing, etc.

Apjpendix. A' 1650.

Extract of a certain letter addressed from New Netherland, the 17"" December, [1649,] to Cornells Melyn.

But should no change be made here, and God not please to improve our condition, we, who have come to New Netherland, are unfortunate men, for it grows from bad to worse. But the trumpet sounds so loud, that poor people have scarcely enough to eat, for no supplies of bread, butter, beef and pork can now be had, except for beaver or silver coin. And Stuyvesant, who promised the people either beavers or silver coin, or cargoes in the spring, hath acted thus, in order to victual the vessel in which Rodenberch will accompany Korrelaer to Barbadoes, with about 20 horses. This is a good beginning for the peopling of New Netherland. Mynheer Dincklagen, hath protested against it, but they heed it not, and treat him with harsh words. When he spoke in behalf of the interests of the Company and the Country, Sluyvesant said, he should not sit wiih him, that he is a fomenter of sedition, and a vagabond ; and other similar tilings too numerous to be detailed here. Therefore, assistance is very much desired, for things begin to come to a crisis; we wish, then, that God would be pleased to send the delegates back quickly with business accomplished, for here matters continue so bad, as to excite murmurs against Heaven.