A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d in the directorship of he was succeeded by Jacob Eelkens, who had been a clerk in Am-sterdam, and who, though wanting the adventurous spirit of his pre-decessor, was an excellent commercial agent. As the three years ofthe companys monopoly went on, he sent constantly increasing storesof furs down the great river to Manhattan ;
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d in the directorship of he was succeeded by Jacob Eelkens, who had been a clerk in Am-sterdam, and who, though wanting the adventurous spirit of his pre-decessor, was an excellent commercial agent. As the three years ofthe companys monopoly went on, he sent constantly increasing storesof furs down the great river to Manhattan ; his scouts made long ex- 362 DUTCH EXPEDITIONS «^0 NORTH AMERICA. [Chap. XIII. peditions into the vast forests to the westward, to barter with newtribes, and find new kinds of skins; and unknown regions wereroughly mapped out for the guidance of future traders. In one of these expeditions, a party of three scouts, who had pene-trated farther into the interior than any before them, seemprisoners by to havc reached the upper waters of the Delaware, and tohave descended the stream to the mouth of the they were seized by the Indian tribes of that neighborhood, andheld as prisoners, though without suffering any harm at the hands of. Upper Waters of the Delaware. their captors. Their situation gave rise, in turn, to new explorations,which it would have seemed natural to undertake long before, butwhich had been neglected. For when the traders at Manhattan heardof the detention of three of their fellows, and studied out the probableposition of those who had taken them, they at once despatched Cor-nelis Hendricksen in the yacht Restless along the coast to the south-ward, that he might go up the rivers from the great bay into whichthey were supposed to flow, and ransom the prisoners. Hendricksen thoroughly explored the shores of Delaware Bay and river, and brought back, besides the three scouts, the mostpiore Deia- glowing acouuts of the river banks covered with grape-v
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