[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] It will, in like manner, be also, confirmed by our following Relation, for in the year of Christ 1G09, discovered at the expense of the General East India Company — though directing '!> ""'-'' their aim and design elsewhere — by the ship de Halve Mane, whereof Henry Sbip naive Netherland resembles nd in mauy Hudson was master and factor. It was aftewards named New Netherland by oui" people, and that very justly, for it was first discovered, and taken possession of, by Netherlanders and at their expense, so that even at the present day, the natives of the country, (who are so old as to remember the event) testify, that on seeing ^hcn the indh •' ^ ' J ' o fIrBt eaw tlie sh the Dutch ships on their first coming here, they knew not what to make of them, f{'w!!^°*nie"'irn and could not comprehend, whether they came down from Heaven or whether wo'rw or people'.' they were Devils. Some among them, on its first approach, even imagined it to be a fish, or some sea monster, so that a strange rumor concerning it flew throughout the whole country. We have heard the Indians also frequently say, that they knew of no other world or people previous to the arrival of the Netherlanders here. For these reasons, therefore, and on account of the similarity of Climate, Situation and fertility, this place is rightly called New Netherland. It is situate along the North Coast of America, in the latitude of 38, 39, 40, 41, Nel'Knd' ^^ 42 degrees, or thereabouts.