Industry had flourished.
Friendly relations were everywhere maintained with the natives.

The northwestern shores of Long Island were studded with the log cottages of the settlers.

During his directorship the exports of the colony had trebled, amounting, in the year 1632, to nearly fifty thousand dollars.
We come now to a scene of war, blood and woe, for which the Dutch were not at all accountable.

It will be remembered that a colony had been established near the mouth of Delaware Bay.

Two vessels were dispatched from Holland for this point containing a number of emigrants, a large stock of cattle, and whaling equipments, as whales abounded in the bay.