He was but little older than Henry, and his earlier youth, before removal to Wyoming, had been passed in Connecticut, a country that was to the colonials thickly populated and containing great towns, such as Hartford and New Haven.
A third close friend whom they soon found was a man unlike any other that they had ever seen.

His name was Cornelius Heemskerk.

Holland was his birthplace, but America was his nation.

He was short and extremely fat, but he had an agility that amazed the five when they first saw it displayed.

He talked much, and his words sounded like grumbles, but the unctuous tone and the smile that accompanied them indicated to the contrary.