[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] g^opyiy "« »<i'">°-for the purpose of making friends, securing witnesses, and m order to get rid of accusers on the subject of the waging of the war. Even the Negroes, which were obtained with Tamandere, were sold for pork and peas; something wonderful was to be performed with this, but they just dripped through the fingers. There are yet sundry other Negroes in this country, some of whom have been manumitted on account of their long service; but their children continue slaves, contrary to all public law, that any one born of a free Christian mother should, notwithstanding, be a slave, and obliged so to remain. It is impossible for us to relate every thing that has occurred. Whoever did not assent and applaud was watched, and when the opportunity offered, was remembered. We now submit to all intelligent persons what fruit this has borne, and what a way this was to obtain good testimony. Man is by nature covetous, and he is especially so who is needy. But we shall give some few instances of this, when we treat of Director Kieft's Proceeds to Diref-administration in particular, and now to proceed to that of Director Stuyvesant, tor Sliivvesanl's aJ-' minisiraiioD. and to sce what has been its course here, up to the time of our departure, stuvvetant is un-Mr. Stuvvcsant has been, almost the whole of the time from his first coming profitably busy in "^, c }h?^ C'mpanj'a af-to our leaving, busy building, laying masonry, constructing, breaking up, renttmg