of the Indian were plain-spoken,
earnest men, who left their native
land to extend and enrich her
|| power and possession, and bind
another province in a new quar-
ter of the globe to the United
wa! Netherland. Traders, chiefly, al-

| though they never ignored the
principles of religion, education
and good government, and the
early accounts published by some
of their historians, and the ad-
mirably written records and cor-
respondence left by the Stuy-
vesants, Beekmans, and Van
Rensselaers. attest fully as to
their erudition and scholarship.