[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] j ■ • • As they decide, so 'twill go; there is no appeal." And it has not been difficult for them hitherto to put this in practice; for the people were few, and the majority of these (28) very simple and uninformed; they, moreover, had business with the Directors every day, and if there were any men of intelligence among them, who could walk on their own feet, efforts were made to conciliate these. It was impossible at first fully to comprehend their policy, which was always artful and insidious, especially as it was so often successful in this respect, Director Kiert gaye and had sometimes quite a long duration. Director Kieft himself said, and out here that he was ^ ° Sovereign' ""!)«"'J ^'lo^^d othcrs to repeat it, that in this country he was Sovereign and the same Company"""" ""' "^ ^^ Priucc in Netherland. He was told so repeatedly here, and never made any particular objection to it. The refusal of appeal and other such acts, prove it so conclusively, that, in our opinion, it does not require any further evidence. stnyve»ani ai«o re-This present Director does, also, the same thing, for he too was quite at home in refusing appeals. He also quotes right readily this maxim, " The Prince is