We can drive both French and Indians back, if we ever unite.

There lies the trouble.

We must get some sort of concentrated action." "And New York is the best place to see whether it will be done or not." "So it is." The wind remained favorable all that day, the next night there was a calm, but the following day they drew near to New York, Captain Van Zouten assuring them he would make a landing before sunset.
He was well ahead of his promise, because the sun was high in the heavens when the sloop began to pass the high, wooded hills that lie at the upper end of Manhattan Island, and they drew in to their anchorage near the Battery.

They did not see the stone government buildings that had marked Quebec, nor the numerous signs of a fortress city, but they beheld more ships and more indications of a great industrial life.
"Every time I come here," said Willet, "it seems to me that the masts increase in number.

Truly it is a good town, and an abundant life flows through it." "Where shall we stop, Dave ?" asked Robert.