. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. sued an order to the effect that noone should sign any paper in reference to tlie treatment which Eelkinshad received. 20 ^^ery soon afterwai-d the governor, who was sure to act promptly on inopportune occasions, attempted to vindicate his statesman-ship at the expense of De Vries. The latter had two vessels, one ofwhich was a small yacht; and before returning to Europe he wished tosend it toward the north on a trading cruise along the coast. Thegovernor forbade his doing so, and, seeing De Vries making preparationsin defiance
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. sued an order to the effect that noone should sign any paper in reference to tlie treatment which Eelkinshad received. 20 ^^ery soon afterwai-d the governor, who was sure to act promptly on inopportune occasions, attempted to vindicate his statesman-ship at the expense of De Vries. The latter had two vessels, one ofwhich was a small yacht; and before returning to Europe he wished tosend it toward the north on a trading cruise along the coast. Thegovernor forbade his doing so, and, seeing De Vries making preparationsin defiance of his authority, valiantly ordered the guns of the fort turnedupon liim. De Vries, who tells the story, says: — I ran to the point of land where Van Twiller stood with tlit^ .secretary andone or two of the council, and told them it seemed to me the country was fullof fools ! If they must fire at something, they ought to have fired at the English-man who violated the rights of their river against their will. This caused them todesist from troublrag me THE FIItST CLEl!(n\MAX. 71 The yacht sailed, and was soon winding her way through tlie channelof Hellegat (or Hell-Gate, as it is still called), wliich in certain times ofthe tide indulged iu all sorts of wild paroxysms. Some go so far as tosay that the Dutch named it out of sheer spleen, because it hectored theirtub-built barks until the sailors were so giddy that they solemnly gavethe yawning gulf over to the Devil. In the same vessel which brought Wouter Van Twiller to Manhattan,Dominie Bogardus, the first clergyman of New Netherland, was a passen-ger. He was a man of a certain order of talent in large measure, and washonored for his piety. He was large, gTaceful, sinewy, strong, with a hue,broad, open, frank face, high cheek-bones, a dark piercing eye, and mouthexpressive of the very electricity of good-luunor, whicli Mas partlyhidden, however, by a beard cut in the peculiar fashicjn pirescriljed forecclesiastics
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