number of fur-bearing animals he had seen, and the wonders he had met
with, that the Hollanders became much excited and determined to send out
and claim the newly discovered country.

In 1610 a vessel was sent out, and the Indians proving friendly and the
trade satisfactory, a colony was finally established in 1613 on the
southern point of Manhattan Island.

This was near where the Battery now is.

The first permanent settlement was made in 1622, the Dutch having taken
possession of the country around the Hudson River, calling it New
Netherlands.

In 1626 the West India Company sent out a settlement under Gov. Peter
Minuit.

He landed on the island of Manhattan, and soon entered into a trade with
the Indians, buying from them the entire island of Manhattan, fourteen
thousand acres in size, for twenty-four dollars' worth of scarlet cloth,
brass buttons, and other trinkets.

The Dutch gave the island the name of New Amsterdam, and established on
it a settlement consisting of a fort, a stone warehouse, and a cluster
of log-huts.

After the Dutch had established their colony of New Amsterdam, they
endeavored to colonize it on the Patroon system.

By this system, any man who undertook to bring fifty settlers to the