. Colonial children . m strange enemies. Each hill is fur-nished with a beacon and land guns. By their re-doubled echoes these give notice of any danger to alltheir sister towns. The buildings of this city arc beautiful and are pleasingly built of bricks, tiles, stone andslate. They are placed in an orderly fashion upon on which theState Housenow stands. 140 Colo ?ties [No. 47 beautiful streets. Much shipping is built here yearly,and some ships of good size. Both tar and masts,the country affords from its own soil ; there is also asupply of food, both for their own — and for foreign
. Colonial children . m strange enemies. Each hill is fur-nished with a beacon and land guns. By their re-doubled echoes these give notice of any danger to alltheir sister towns. The buildings of this city arc beautiful and are pleasingly built of bricks, tiles, stone andslate. They are placed in an orderly fashion upon on which theState Housenow stands. 140 Colo ?ties [No. 47 beautiful streets. Much shipping is built here yearly,and some ships of good size. Both tar and masts,the country affords from its own soil ; there is also asupply of food, both for their own — and for foreign-ers ships. This town is the very market of the , Portuguese, and Dutch come here to trade. 47. How the Englishmen sailedpast New Amsterdam By David De Vries (1632) Fort Amster- When we arrived before Fort Amsterdam, we foundNewYork a Companys ship there with a prize taken on the way,City, was the laden with sugar. She had brought over the new gov-pnncipai ernor, Wouter Van Twiller. He had been a clerk in. NEW AMSTERDAM. trading post the West India Department at Amsterdam. I went e u c i ashore t0 fort 0ut 0f which he came to welcome in New Netherlands, us, and inquired of me how the whale fishing suc- TheCom- ceeded. no. 47] New Amsterdam 141 A few days later, on the eighteenth of April, an panywasEnglishman arrived here, who came from New Eng- „f ^tc,h o o \V est India land to trade up the Hudson River. This English- Company,man invited the governor to come and see him. I whlch man- • ii- -i 1 aged the went with them, in company with a number of om- , who became drunk and got into such high wordsthat the Englishman could not understand how it wasthat there should be such unruliness among the offi-cers of the company, nor why the governor shouldhave not more control over them ; he was not accus-tomed to such conduct among his countrymen. TheEnglishman and his crew remained six or seven days,lying before the fort, and then said that he wished
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