1643.] MANHATTAN. 235 



with heat, and afraid to move a limb. His wound- 

 ed leg began to show dangerous symptoms ; but he 

 was relieved by the care of a Dutch surgeon of the 

 fort. The minister, Megapolensis, also visited him, 

 and did all in his power for the comfort of his 

 Catholic brother, with whom he seems to have been 

 well pleased, and whom he calls " a very learned 

 scholar." ^ 



When Jogues had remained for six weeks in this 

 hiding-place, his Dutch friends succeeded in satis- 

 fying his Indian masters by the payment of a large 

 ransom.^ A vessel from Manhattan, now New York, 

 soon after brought up an order from the Director- 

 General, Kieft, that he should be sent to him. 

 Accordingly he was placed in a small vessel, which 

 carried him down the Hudson. The Dutch on 

 board treated him with great kindness ; and, to do 

 him honor, named after him one of the islands 

 in the river. At Manhattan he found a dilapidated 

 fort, garrisoned by sixty soldiers, and containmg a 

 stone church and the Director-General's house, to- 

 gether with storehouses and barracks. Near it were 

 ranges of small houses, occupied chiefly by mechan- 

 ics and laborers ; while the dwellings of the remain- 

 ing colonists, numbering in all four or five hundred, 

 were scattered here and there on the island and the 

 neighboring shores. The settlers were of diff'erent 

 sects and nations, but chiefly Dutch Calvinists. 

 Kieft told his guest that eighteen diflerent languages 



1 Megapolensis, A Short Sketch of the Mohawk Indians. 



2 Lettre de Jogues a Lalemant, Rennes, Jan. 6, 1644. — See Relation, 1643, 

 p. 79. — Goods were given the Indians to the value of three hundred 

 livres. 



