[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] On this day the 12"" April, of this year Sixteen hundred and fifty, before me Martin Beeckman admitted Public Notary by the Court of Holland and resident here, and the undernamed witnesses, appeared the worthy VVilhelm Noble, of Alckmaer, aged eight and twenty years, late Surgeon of Captain Blaeuwvelt, sailing the yacht La Gurse belonging to New Netherland, who declared and certified, as he hereby doth, on his manly troth, in place of an oath which he offers to take at all times, when required, that there had been no intelligence nor publication of the peace among the Spaniards in the West Indies, as the captain, skipper, surgeon, carpenter, steward, gunner and all the seamen on board the said yacht La Garse, have declared on oath, as appears by further Minute thereof remaining with Director Stuyvesant; and that consequently, they captured on the 22""* April, 1649, up in the river Tabasco a bark laden with grains of paradise. On the fifth of July, after a long fight they took a ship of four guns, laden with logwood; afterwards, on the 19lh July, of the same year, seeing a ship that they took to be the prize from which they had been separated, they overtook her about eleven o'clock at night and hailed her, crying " Lie to. Pilot," without attempting any thing else.