. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ver the Yankeeswith such men as these. So he picked out a small band of stout menwhom he paid in sil-ver and gold, whichgreatly increased theirvalor. These he drill-ed day after day. Healso had huge banksof mud thrown uparound the city be-hind which these sol-diers were to fire attheir enemy. After allthis labor of gettingready it seems a pitythat there was no warafter all. But such wasthe case. The colonyof Massachusetts re-fused to help Connecti-cut, for it did not be-lieve in the charge against the honest Dutch governor. But t
. Stories of the three Americas. Their discovery and settlement. ver the Yankeeswith such men as these. So he picked out a small band of stout menwhom he paid in sil-ver and gold, whichgreatly increased theirvalor. These he drill-ed day after day. Healso had huge banksof mud thrown uparound the city be-hind which these sol-diers were to fire attheir enemy. After allthis labor of gettingready it seems a pitythat there was no warafter all. But such wasthe case. The colonyof Massachusetts re-fused to help Connecti-cut, for it did not be-lieve in the charge against the honest Dutch governor. But this wasnot the only reason. For it was at this time that the witchcraft troublebroke out in New England, and the Yankees had enough to doburning up their witches, without molesting their harmless Dutchneighbors. But this valiant ruler was no sooner out of one trouble thananother was thrust upon him. This time it was the Swedes on theDelaware, who had also been trespassing on the country of the NewNetherlanders. So Governor Stuyvesant sent out a force under the. PETER STUYVESANT, 166 STORIES OF THE THREE AMERICAS. command of General von Pofifenburgh, to build a fort on theDelaware, to keep back the invading Swedes. Now this von Poffen-burgh was a very fat, conceited little fellow, ever loud in his ownpraise and in lelling of his heroic deeds. So when he had reachedthe Delaware and had built his fort, which he named Fort Casimir,it is said that he was so impatient for fight that he thrust his swordthrough the pumpkins of the neighboring gardens, fancying to him-self that he was killing scores of Swedes. Jan Printz was governor of New Sweden at this time. He senta message to this gallant officer telling him to get out of the PofFenburgh replied, with much noisy language, that he wouldnot. Jan Printz then sailed up the Delaware three miles above FortCasimir, where he built a fort and called it Christina. As all thevessels bearing provisions to Fort Casimir had to pass F
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