. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. indiscreetenough to express gTeat indignation, and thereupon some Indians whoMere particularly attaclied to him killed the clilef who had confiscatedthe tin. Hossett rebuked them ior committing such a crime, and theywent away. P>ut a few days afterwards the friends of the murderedchieftain resolved to be revenged, and. coining suddenly upon the men asthey were at work in the tobacco-fields, massacred tlieni all. De Vrleswisely treated with the same Indians for j)eace; and when they were 68 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. a
. History of the city of New York : its origin, rise, and progress. indiscreetenough to express gTeat indignation, and thereupon some Indians whoMere particularly attaclied to him killed the clilef who had confiscatedthe tin. Hossett rebuked them ior committing such a crime, and theywent away. P>ut a few days afterwards the friends of the murderedchieftain resolved to be revenged, and. coining suddenly upon the men asthey were at work in the tobacco-fields, massacred tlieni all. De Vrleswisely treated with the same Indians for j)eace; and when they were 68 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. at last induced to briug witli tlieru their uliiei, lie ioiiued a circlealter their own fashion, and gave them blankets, , axes, andtrinkets, with which they were greatly pleased, and they went awaypromising that he should not lie harmed. He then tried to establish a whale-tishery, but after spendiu March U. . ?. 1 G some time iu fruitless etibrts, decided that it would not provepaying business there, and sailed to the James Iliver, where he was cour-. Portrait of De Vnes. teously received by Sir John Harvey, tlie governor of Virginia. He re-mained several days, greatly admiring the country, wliich was alreadyunder a hioh state of culti\atirin, with well-stocked gardens, and Prov-ence roses, apple, cherry, pear, and peach trees about the houses. CAPTAIX JJE VniES. 69 Harvey, with genial frankness, produced a map, and tried to convinceDe Vries that the whtJe country in the region of Swaanendael was tlieproperty f the king of Fhigland; l)Ut he was very amiably disjiosedtowards the Dutch on the North Ki\er, notwithstanding, and a pleasantintercourse was ojjened between the two colonies. Captain De Vries was a hronzed, weather-beaten sailor of the oldschool, without family ties, who had seen the world from many pointsof observation, and had been on terms of intimacy with the most culti-vated men and the rudest barbarians. He was tall, muscular, and hard-visaged, but soft-voi
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