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friends, to secure witnesses and to avoid accusers about the management of the war.    The negroes, also, who came from Tamandare* were sold for pork and peas, from the proceeds of which something wonderful was to be performed, but they just dripped through the fingers. There are, also, various other negroes in this country, some of whom have been made free for their long service, but their children have remained slaves, though it is contrary to the laws of every people that any one born of a Christian mother should be a slave and be compelled to remain in servitude.    It is impossible to relate every thing that has happened.    Whoever did not give his assent and approval was watched and, when it was convenient, was summoned.    We submit to all intelligent persons to consider what fruit this has borne, and what a way this was to obtain good testimony.    Men are by nature covetous, especially those who are needy, and of this we will hereafter adduce some few proofs, when we come to speak of Director Kieft's government particularly.    But to proceed now to the administration of Direc- uJJ**^",,. torStuyvesant,and tosee how affairshave been conducted mem of m-up to the time of our departure.    Mr. Stuyvesant has ves'aOnt.Suiy' most all the time from his first arrival up to our leaving, fs'SsVy^"th. been busy building, laying masonry, making, breaking, J|£ ™J ttd" repairing   and the   like, but generally in  matters of the^mnet the Company and with little profit to it; for upon some *" ComPit" things more was   spent than  they were worth; and though, at the first, he put in order the church which Besides the came into his hands very much out of repair, and shortly wimrf" and afterwards made a wooden wharf, both of which are J,oun£jSS»» very serviceable and convenient, yet after this time we f°r the poo-do not know that any thing has been done or made that is entitled to the name of a public work, though there has been income enough as is to be seen in the statement of the yearly revenue.    Nothing more was afterwards attempted, as is the case with dropsical pebple.    Thus in a short time very great discontent has sprung up on all sides, not only among the burghers, who had little to say, but also among the Company's officers themselves, so that various protests were made by them on account of the expense and waste consequent upon unnecessary councillors, officers, servants and the like who are not known
• The name of a bay on the coast of Brazil, where the Dutch Admiral, Lichthart, obtained a signal triumph over the Portuguese in a naval en-gagement on the 9th of September, 1645.