still further wealth, dignity, and
power.

Being impressed by the results
attained by the Indians in the
neighborhood in the cultivation
of maize, beans, and such like
truck for food, Van Twiller was
desirous that the community itself
should produce such a sufficiency
of a like product as to be able to
ship it to Holland for home con-
sumption and for export ; accord-
ingly were established a series of
small farms to be known as the
Company’s Gardens or Bouwe-
ries. These gardens were located

ARK “| immediately northward from the
pane CGE Ze~i| settled portion of the Island;
(ye OL Nag four on the Eastern shore and
Besides

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 

ep

| two on the West shore.