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Rh From an Old Print Prior's Mill, located near what is now the Corner of Fremont Street and Railroad Avenue

where they were well accustomed to contest the hunting rights with other tribes. For a long time there was little strife between them and the Dutch. The men of Holland were sharp traders, but they were not robbers or tyrants. From the very first they purchased instead of taking, and so, though Indian wars finally came into even their quiet history, they were wars not caused by attempt to snatch lands or other possessions from their savage neighbors.

They left the Indians to live their own free life, and the red men were well satisfied to exchange their furs, maize and tobacco for the strange and tempting goods that had beenbrought across the great salt water. The Dutchmen smoked their long pipes in peace, cultivated tulips in the alien soil, drank their aromatic Hollands in taverns that were Holland