<2> In August, 1647, some months after Stuyvesant's
arrival, Kieft sailed for Holland. With him sailed his
enemy Domine Bogardus, and the chief victims of his and
Stuyvesant's persecution, Kuyter and Melyn. The ship
was wrecked on the Welsh coast. Kieft was drowned; his
opponents escaped.

Fuller's earth is found in abundance, and [Armenian] bole;
also white, red, yellow, blue and black clay very solid
and greasy, and should be suitable for many purposes;
earth for bricks and for tiles, mountain-chrystal, glass
like that of Muscovy,<1> green serpentine stone in great
abundance, blue limestone, slate, red grindstone, flint,
paving stone, large quantities of all varieties of quarry
stone suitable for hewing mill-stones and for building
all kinds of walls, asbestos and very many other kinds
applicable to the use of man. There are different paints,
but the Christians are not skilled in them. They are
seen daily on the Indians, who understand their nature
and use them to paint themselves in different colors. If
it were not that explorers are wanting, our people would
be able to find them and provide themselves with them.

<1> Mica.

Of the Americans or Natives, their Appearance, Occupations,
and Means of Support.

The natives are generally well set in their limbs, slender