There seemed to be no probability of their becoming enemies.

Muskets and steel traps enabled them to obtain many more furs.

Thus the Indians were soon furnished with an abundant supply of fire-arms, and became unerring marksmen.
Year after year the returns from the trading-posts became more valuable; and the explorations were pushed farther and farther into the interior.

The canoes of the traders penetrated the wide realms watered by the upper channels of the Delaware.

A trading-house was also erected in the vast forest, upon the Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where the thronged streets of Jersey City at the present hour cover the soil.
We have now reached the year 1618, two years before the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.