This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...out with the honors of war, and the English soldiers march in. The red, white, and blue flag of Holland came down, and the English standard went up. Fort Amsterdam became Fort James, New Amsterdam became New York, and Stuyvesant became a private citizen. Nicolls was appointed the deputy-governor, to represent the Duke ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...out with the honors of war, and the English soldiers march in. The red, white, and blue flag of Holland came down, and the English standard went up. Fort Amsterdam became Fort James, New Amsterdam became New York, and Stuyvesant became a private citizen. Nicolls was appointed the deputy-governor, to represent the Duke of York. The change of rulers made no change in the prosperity of the colony. The city records were ordered to be kept in both Dutch and English, and the schools taught the two languages. This was hard on the pupils who heard nothing but Dutch at home. One schoolmaster, to compel his scholars to master their English, adopted the ingenious plan of handing to the first pupil who used a Dutch word when English was to be spoken, a little piece of metal. When the holder of this piece heard another boy using Dutch, he passed the piece on to the latter. And so it continued during the day. At the close of the afternoon session, the unlucky boy that had it in his possession was soundly whipped. As Hans grew older he helped his father in business. He took charge of the accounts, and kept track of the wampum, which was the only currency the Indians would recognize. This wampum, or seawant, was of two kinds, and was made at first by the Indians and afterwards by the Dutch. When the Indians made it, they had only stone tools to work with, but the Dutch used metal tools, something the Indians knew nothing of at first. The wampum was of two kinds, white and black, the former being worth only half the latter. The white was made from the stem of the periwinkle, and the black from the purple coating of the hard clam. These were rounded and polished, pierced so that they could be strung on animal sinews, and then woven into belts of different sizes. These string...
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