We confidently trust that nothing but the tedious and dangerous voyage has prevented our receipt to this time, of your High Mightinesses' approval thereof, for we have seen and found you. High and Mighty, to be our dear fathers, who have been pleased to take to heart the sorrowful condition and urgent necessity of this poor afflicted Commonalty. We are unable to evince or to proffer sufficient thankfulness to the good God and you. High and Mighty; the love and affection shown to us, can amply supply this. Your High Mightinesses' letter being handed by our delegated associates to Director General Stuyvesant and Council, on the said 28"" June, they have in consequence of the non-arrival of the Redress, been pleased to disregard your High Mightinesses' orders up to this time, with the exception alone of the proclamation of the peace with the King of Spain, which has been made here only at the Manhattans and no further, to our knowledge. The wretched condition of this country continues, meanwhile, unaltered, and has even become worse, as we have communicated to our associate delegate Adriaen van der Donck. We are, therefore, to our grief and sorrow, under the necessity of troubling you in this manner and of again imploring your favor, and pray you, High and Mighty, to be pleased to be indulgent towards us, for so long as the Redress is not here, we cannot refrain from so doing; therefore, hoping that its speedy arrival will comfort and console us, we, in concluding, shall commend you, High and Mighty, both generally and in particular, and your prosperous and wholesome Government unto God's protection, remaining your High Mightinesses' most humble and most faithful servants.'