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him • lay it on, boys ; make him smart for it ; make him 
remember it, a drunken Dutch dog." Then, writes PlNC- 
KARD, ' the Captain of his own company, who happened 
to be present, immediately ordered him into confinement 
in the guard house, preparatory to being led forth, at a 
more sober moment, to probably a severer punishment.' 
Primitive as Stabroek was, it was yet far more fully de- 
veloped than was New Amsterdam. The latter was, indeed, 
at the moment hardly in existence ; for the old town of 
that name, which had been some forty miles up the river, 
had recently been abandoned, owing to the growing 
tendency to cultivate the coast-lands in preference to 
those up the river, and the colonists were at the time 
building the new town, on its present site, close to the 
mouth of the river. 
" The town," wrote Pinckard, "is yet in embryo. According to a 
plan formed for its construction it is to be built upon the angle, or 
peninsula, between the rivers Berbiche and Kannye, extending along 
the bank of the Kannye. The land on which it is to be erected is in part 
cleared of its wood and divided into lots ready for building ; but, at 
present, only here and there a scattered home is to be seen. Beyond 
the prepared land, and not half a mile from the Government house, the 
wild forest still overhangs the river Kannye ; but those powerful en- 
gines the destructive axe and all-subduing fire, are now directed against 
l t, and consequently it cannot long remain a forest. The whole scenery 
at New Amsterdam betrays the infant state of the colony. The dreari- 
ness of the land, just robbed of its thick woods — the nakedness that 
prevails around the Government house — the want of roads and paths — 
the wild savanna — the heavy forests, in short all that meets the eye 
conveys the idea of a country just emerging from its original wildness 
into cultivation." 
In both towns the markets were overstocked with 
vegetable provisions, but were very badly, or indeed 
hardly at all, supplied with animal food. For vegetables 
the chief market was held on Sunday and was supplied 
