January 7.--We received a letter from Marten Gerritsen, dated from
the last of December; it was brought by a Sinneken that arrived from
our fort. He told us that our people grew very uneasy about our not
coming home, and that they thought we had been killed. We ate
fresh salmon only two days caught, and we were robbed to-day of
six and a half hands of seawan that we never saw again.


January 8. Aarenias came to me to say that he wanted to go with
me to the fort and take all his skins to trade. Jeronimus tried to
sell his coat here, but he could not get rid of it.

January 9. During the evening the Onondagas came. There were
six old men and four women. They were very tired from the march,
and brought with them some bear skins. I came to meet them, and
thanked them that they came to visit us; and they welcomed me, and
because it was very late I went home.

January 10. Jeronimus burned the greater part of his pantaloons, that
dropped in the fire during the night, and the chief's mother gave him
cloth to repair it, and Willem Tomassen repaired it.

January 11. At ten o'clock in the morning the savages came to me
and invited me to come to the house where the Onondagans sat in
council. "They will give you presents"; and I went there with
Jeronimus; took our pistols with us and sat alongside of them, near
an old man of the name of Canastogeera, about 55 years of age; and
he said: "Friends, I have come here to see you and to talk to you;"
wherefore we thanked him, and after they had sat in council for a
long time an interpreter came to me and gave me give pieces of