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38 Delaware Bay and up the river above the Schuylkill. This happened, too, seventy years before William Penn settled in this region, the Onrust, therefore, being the first vessel to explore these waters. Lossing states that this vessel sailed for Holland with a cargo of furs; but what became of her does not appear.

In 1621 the Dutch West India Company obtained a charter "to colonize, govern, and defend New Netherland," and was expressly bound to "advance the peopling of those fruitful and unsettled parts." Accordingly in the spring of 1623, the ship New Netherland, of 260 tons burden, landed thirty families at Manhattan. This was the first attempt at the agricultural colonization of this territory, which became known as New Amsterdam—now the city of New York.

In New Netherland, the whole country being intersected by broad water-ways, yachts were quite as necessary as in Holland. Fortunately, then, upon looking through the old records of the Dutch West India Company, we obtain occasional glimpses of the yachts of that period.

Among the list of effects of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland returned to the Government, September 4, 1626, are included eighty-one vessels. Twenty-four of these are yachts. Two of the entries read: "33 ships of 200 a 300 a 350 lasts, including 9 or 10 big and little yachts which the Company hath still lying here in port, provided with metal and iron guns, and all sorts of supplies of ammunition of war,