[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Is it not monopoly in the Director when, having sailed in the year 1646 from Fatherland for New Netherland with the ships the Princess and Groote Gerrit, on arriving in the latitude of the Canary Islands, he altered the course to New Netherland, the destined place, and set towards and ran to Curasao, by which means the traders having freight on board, knowing no better than that they should proceed direct to New Netherland, suffered serious loss and damage, as everybody in Amsterdam was advised by public printed notices; a statement whereof has been made: and many people, who were engaged in the Hon'''" Company's service in New Netherland and nowhere else, and would not consent to go to any other place, were with other free men, deceived in their good designs and intentions, and reduced to such grief and discouragement that many of them died of broken hearts on the voyage and at Curasao? Is it not monopoly in the Director at Cura9ao, where skipper Jan Smal made one voyage from Holland contrary to the Hon'''" Company's commission, to dismiss Fiscal Hendrick van Dyck's suit, when he wanted to prosecute said skipper to confiscation, for having returned thither a second time to trade? Is it not monopoly in the Director, on skipper Adriaen Blommert's arrival at New Netherland from Holland, to destine and send him to Cura9ao and Aruba, to take in horses there, which he sold in Antigua?