New Netherland in 1640 (Classic Reprint)

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In 1655 he published at Alckmaer his Short Historical and Journal Notes, wherein are described what battles he has had by water; each country its animals, birds, kind of fishes and savage men, - counterfeited to the life - and the woods and rivers with their products. He styles himself, on the title-page, ordnance-master of the Most Noble Lords, the Committed Council of the States of West F riesland the North Quarter. The vol ume was a small quarto of 192 pages, with a portrait of De Vries, and eighteen plates, twelve of them relating to the Indians and natural history of America. The sections describing the three voyages to Nfiw Netherland were translated by Henry C. Murphy, and published in the Collections of the New York Historical Society, Second Series, vol. Iii., Part I., 18 57; and from this translation the present leaﬂet is made up. It is remarkable, says Mr. Murphy in his introduction, that. After Hudson, only one of the numerous Dutch navigators and travellers has, as far as is known, published a journal or narrative of voyages to New N eth erland during the possession of the country by their nation. De Vries, he says. Was a bold and skilful seaman. He was a religious man, and held the strongest Calvinistic doc trines. His narratives, where he speaks from personal knowledge, are entitled to the high est credit, for not only do they bear internal evidence of truth, but they have been corrob orated in many instances by other evidence and by the records which we have; and, being his.daily observations, taken down at the time, they have from this circumstance a value which. No narrative formed from memory could possess. His relation of the disgraceful and disastrous Indian war in which he was an actor and a friend of the Indians, is the only authentic one extant of any completeness, except that of the government, and is therefore of great interest and value.

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