them take a look at it, and it was the same; and we asked him where
he obtained it. He told us they obtained it from the stranger savages,
and that they believed it to be good against many maladies, but prin-
cipally for their legs when they were sore from long marching and
were very tired.

December 18. Three women of the Sinnekens came here with dried
and fresh salmon; the latter smelled very bad. They sold each salmon
for one florin or two hands of seawan. They brought, also, a good
quantity of green tobacco to sell; and had been six days on the march.
They could not sell all their salmon here, but went farther on to the
first castle; and when they returned we were to go with them, and in
the evening Jeronimus told me that a savage tried to kill him with a
knife.


December 19. We received a letter from Marten Gerritsen dated
December 18, and with it we received paper, salt, tobacco for the
savages, and a bottle of brandy, and secured an Indian that was
willing to be our guide for the Sinnekens. We gave him half a
yard of cloth, two axes, two knives, and two awls. If it had been
summer, many Indians would have gone with us, but as it was
winter they would not leave their land, because it snowed very
often up to the height of a man. To-day we had a great rainfall,
and I gave the guide a pair of shoes. His name was Sqorhea.

December 20. We took our departure from the second castle, and,
after marching a league, our savage, Sqorhea, came to a stream that
we had to pass. This stream ran very fast; besides, big cakes of ice
came drifting along, for the heavy rainfall during yesterday had set