4| ships and the general rendezvous
of the Indians and traders from
oe roundabout—the Manna-hattoes
from the north, the Hackensacks
and Raritans from the west, the
Rockaways, Canarsees, Shinne-
gicocks, and Missiqueeges from
Rf Long Island and the eastward.

Ke Around this redoubt grew up
27 the little village, log huts at first,
2 Z and later stone or brick cottages,
which, with the advent of Petrus
Stuyvesant, was incorporated as
New Amsterdam — the name
under which the settlement had
been known since first given it
S| by Adrian Block in 1613-14.

4, The Director also caused to be
built a horse-mill for grinding
All corn, a staple article of food with
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ealg| the Indian, and whose value was