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Netherlandy

Doc. Hist., iv,

I, etc.

OF HUDSON'S RWER.

than usual, where guns were them at a fair price, realizing in this way plenty, purchasing considerable profit. This extraordinary gain was not long kept

Amsterdam,

secret.

in greater numbers

The traders coming from Holland soon got scent of it,

and from time to time, brought over great quantities, so that the Mohawks, in a short time, were seen with fire locks and

" Four powder and lead in proportion." The record continues hundred armed men knew how to make use of their advantage, :

especially against their

enemies, dwelling along the river of

Canada, against whom they have now achieved many profitable

where before they had but little advantage. This caused them also to be respected by the surrounding Indians even as far as the sea-coast, who must generally pay them tribute whereas, on the contrary, they were formerly obliged to contribute to these. forays

;

On this account the Indians, in the vicinity of Fort Amsterdam, and as the record elsewhere shows, especially the Minsis of New Jersey and the Delaware, " endeavored no less to procure guns, and through the familiarity which existed between them and the people " at New Amsterdam, " began to solicit the

and powder, but as such was forbidden on pain of death, and could not remain long concealed in consequence

latter for guns

This them to con spire against us, beginning first with insults which they every where indiscreetly uttered, railing at us as materiotty, that is to