But in May, 1632, an expedition, consisting of two ships, was fitted out from Holland.

with additional emigrants and supplies.

Just before the vessels left the Texel, a ship from Manhattan brought the melancholy intelligence to Amsterdam that the colony at Swaanendael had been destroyed by the savages, thirty-two men having been killed outside of the fort working in the fields.

Still DeVrees, who commanded the expedition, hoping that the report was exaggerated, and that the colony might still live, in sadness and disappointment proceeded on his way.

One of his vessels ran upon the sands off Dunkirk, causing a delay of two months.