20 TlMEHRI. 
Many of the Dutch soldiers had, as has been told, 
entered the English service ; but those who had not 
done this remained in the colony, living and drilling 
within sight of the English military posts. For ex- 
ample, one day at New Amsterdam, PlNCKARD saw 
a curious scene of military life in which the actors 
were partly Dutch partly English. The object was 
the punishment of a soldier in the Dutch service, for 
drunkenness. Two ranks, of about twenty men of his 
fellow soldiers, each armed with a green newly gathered 
switch, were drawn up face to face, with just sufficient 
distance between to allow a clear pathway for a man 
to walk. At one end of this pathway stood the drum- 
major, provided with a huge staff; and behind him was the 
culprit, stripped to the waist and with his arms bound 
behind him. Behind the two ranks were ranged the 
non-commissioned officers, each cane in hand. Near by 
stood the drummers ready to beat a loud and slow march. 
Round this central group arranged in military order, had 
gathered a group of spectators, among whom were various 
officers and men belonging to the English troops looking 
curiously at Dutch military pomp. When the drums 
were struck, the major, followed by the culprit, marched 
slowly to their sound backward and forward between the 
ranks ; and as they passed, each man in the ranks used 
his switch on the prisoner's back, or, if in pity he ab- 
stained, received an equivalent cut on his own back from 
the cane of the non-commissioned officer behind him- 
Even during the proceedings an English soldier staggered 
forward, himself drunk, from among the spectators, and 
lurched against the central group of Dutchmen, uttering 
such ejaculations as "That's right, comrades; give it 
