174 Timehri. 



innumerable magnificent treasures of the Peruvian Incas were hidden. 

 The Hollanders were the first people to settle on the Surinam River. 

 In 1613 ( 2 ) they had already a small Amsterdam factory in Paramaribo, 

 and kept up regular trade communications. After them came English, 

 French and Jews. 



In 1650, Lord Willoughby of Parhsm, Governor-General of the 

 English West Indian islands, who had his headquarteis on the Island 

 of Barbado3 ; fitted out an expedition with the idea of annexing the coast of 

 Guiana. The settlement " Willoughby Land " became a properly regu- 

 lated agricultural colony with mauy sugar plantations and he lived there 

 himself for some time. Charles II. of England granted to him 

 and to Lawrence Hide and their legal heirs and descendants in 1662 

 (June 2nd) by Royal Charter, full rights of possession, over the lands and 

 coasts of Surinam. 



Portuguese Jews originally from Brazil came via Cayenne in 1666 and 

 strengthened the Colony ; they were sturdy and strong and thoroughly 

 understood tropical agriculture, as a result they became great owners of 

 plantations and capitalists and from this time onwards formed the leaders 

 of the Surinam population. 



In 1664 the New Netherlands (now New York) were taken by Rear- 

 Admiral Sir Robert Holmes in the name of the Duke of York, brother of 

 the English King. In that same year de Ruyter took British Forts on 

 the coast of Guinea (Africa), but his attack on Barbados in 1665 failed. 

 Tobago was the property of the heirs of the Brothers Lampsins. 



By treaty of 17th November 1664 the King of England granted 

 Tobago to the Duke of Courland (Jacob von Ketteler) in exchange for his 

 settlement on the coast of Guinea. In the beginning of 1666 the Governor 

 of Jamaica brought about the conquest of Tobago. Now came the revenge 

 for the conquest of the New Netherlands and Tohago. In 1666 the Grand 

 Pensionary Pieter de Huybert wrote to Jan de Witt, unfolding a plan for a 

 raid on the West Indies. 



The other Naval Authorities refused to take part iu this but the 

 Admiralty of Zeeland commenced preparation in secret and carried 

 them through. Their man is Crijnssen (or Quirijnssen), probably the son 

 of a Zeeland Captain of this name. He was Captain in the Zeeland 

 Admiralty, on the yacht " Prins te Paert." He distinguished himself in 

 1666 and became Lieutenant Admiral of Zeeland. The object, as was 

 stated, was to do as much damage as possible to the English aud to fur- 

 ther the interests of the Zeeland plantation owners. 



An example of the popularity of Surinam in those days can be seen 

 in the following lines, in which the father of a young girl, promisee his 



