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for my chief aim , in the 
next place , is to acquaint thee 
how , and after what manner 
the Chriftians live there And 
I hope I have pleafed thee fo 
far , as it may prove a means 
to encourage me to give a lar- 
ger Defcription hereafter. 
The next who came there 
were the Dutch ; which was 
between Forty and Fifty Years 
agoe , though they made but 
very little Improvement , only 
built Two or Three Houles , 
upon an Hland (called fmce hy 
the E 7 iglijh ) Sfacies-ljlaiul ; and 
it remained fo , till about the 
Year 1675. in which King 
Charles the Second ( or the 
Duke of Tori ( his Brother ) 
gave the C'ountrey to Edward, 
Billing , in whofe time , one 
Major Fenwick went thither , 
with fome others , and built 
a pretty Town , and call’d it 
Scdam ; 
