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 . De Vries. 438 PROGRESS OF DUTCH COLONIZATION. [Chap. XVI. me in repelling the violence committed by that Englishman ! Thenhe retired to his quarters, and the William quietly sailed out of sightand proceeded to Fort Orange without hindrance. This commanderVan the downright DeVries, who was greatly disgustedat such cowardly conduct —
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 . De Vries. 438 PROGRESS OF DUTCH COLONIZATION. [Chap. XVI. me in repelling the violence committed by that Englishman ! Thenhe retired to his quarters, and the William quietly sailed out of sightand proceeded to Fort Orange without hindrance. This commanderVan the downright DeVries, who was greatly disgustedat such cowardly conduct — this commander Van Twilier, who cameto his office from a clerkship — an amusing case ! Later in the dayDe Vries dined with the director, and gave him his opinion very freely. I spoke then as if it had been my own case, and told him that Iwould have made him go from the fort by the persuasion of someiron beans sent him by our guns, and would not have allowed him togo up the river. I told him that we did not put up with those thingsin the East Indies. There we taught them how to behave. ^. Van Twillers Defiance. After several daysof hesitation two orthree small craft, with aforce of soldiers from thefort, were sent to FortOrange in pursuit of Eel-kens. They succeeded incompelling him to return,and the William was then ordered to leave the harbor; but this tardytriumph came much too late to help the governors reputation. Whatlittle was left he lost in a quarrel with De Vries a short time after,when the patroon sent his yacht The Squirrel through Hellgate, inspite of Van Twillers prohibition. The latter threatened in this caseto take more energetic measures than before, for he pointedthe guns in an angle of the fort at De Vries vessel, and de-clared that he would fire. But as he stood with some of hiscouncil on the rampart deliberating when he should have been acting, 1 De Vries Voyages. Quarrelwith DeVries. 1633.] VAN TWILLER AND DE VRIES. 439 De Vries himself scornfully appro
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