[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] that the goods are disposed by the first, second and third hands, at an advance of ^ueTiwo'and't'hreo one and two hundred, and more per cent. It would be impossible for us to advance. enumerate all the practices that are had recourse to, for the purpose of promoting self or individual interest; whilst little thought is bestowed on introducing people into the country. We intended to be silent. But the people have, moreover, been driven away by harsh and unwarrantable proceedings; their Honors, however, authorized this, for they instructed Director Kieft to pick out faults The Directors order that a partial shoBid where none existed, and to consider a partial, as a complete, error and so forth. It ""^ c.nsidcred a» a ■^ ' r ' eoraplele error, and has also been seen how the letters of the Eight Men have been treated, and the ^eipie."'"™'' ""' result; besides many additional orders and instructions which are not known to us, and are alike ruinous : but laying this aside for the present, with a word now and again by way of remark, let us proceed to examine how their servants, and the Directors and their friends, have fattened here from time to time, having played with their employers and the people as the cat plays with the mouse. It ^^.^ ^i,'p'ir'°m '''*'^ would, indeed, be very easy to give an account of their management and course laiwhhtmla^.'' from the beginning, but as the most of us were not here at that time, and Vol. f. 38 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS.