In the labors attendant on procuring these reforms. Van der Donck could not fail to secure the ill will of the Company, which had taken possession of New Netherland merely for commercial purposes, and had made colonization only a secondary object. Accordingly, in 1652, when his business w.as concluded and he was on the eve of returning to this country, with his family, the Directors at Amsterdam instructed their ship captains not to receive him on board any of their vessels. In vain he procured *he interference of influential friends and represented the cruelty of separating him from his wife and children, who had already embarked; in vain he pleaded the ruin that would overtake him were he not permitted to proceed. He was told he could not go; his family was obliged to sail without him, and he returned to tlie Hague He now employed his leisure in writing another work on his adopted country, for which he obtained, as stated in the text, a fi teen years' copyright and returned in the fall of 1653 to America, with leave to practice his profession "as far as giving advice," as the Directors see what advantage his pleadings before the court would have, especially as there "could not were, no some lawyers already in New Netherland who could be engaged on the other side." He evidentiy doubt, contemplated an adlition to the last mentioned work, embracing a history of the Province, for he had applied for permission to examine the Colonial records. Unfortunately, the application was fruitless, and his second book was published in 1655, without the proposed addition. It is entitled: