[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] consequently not eye witnesses, and as it was long ago and has partially escaped recollection, and did not seem to us so bad as afterwards when land was granted free, and the freemen began to increase, we shall therefore pass over the beginning, and let Mr. Lubbert van Dioglagen, Vice-Governor of New Netherland, describe the administration of Director Wouter van Twiller, with which he is known to be conversant, and treat only of the two last sad and senseless extravagances — we should say, administrations — of Director Kieft, which is now in truth past, but its evil consequences remain; and of Director Stuyvesant, which still stands, if that can be said to stand which lies completely prostrate. The Directors in this country being at a distance from their masters, looked close to their own advantage. They have always known how to manage their The Directors »d-owu affairs handsomcly, with little loss to themselves, yet under plausible under the 'preienc''o pretexts, such 33 pubHc interest, &c. They have also comported themselves just ««"• as if they were Sovereigns of the country; as they would have it, so must it always be, and as they desired it, so it was. " The Board of Managers," say The Director, play they, " are, indeed, masters in Fatherland, but we are masters in this land. the abaolute maaler.