[324] "You do not know that the devil has taken possession of our poor man."
[325] "Woman of pretended piety."
[326] Domine Schaets's son-in-law was Thomas Davidtse Kekebel or Kieckebuls. His wife had been sent away from Albany by the magistrates. In 1681 she and her husband came into a final concord; Doc. Hist. N.Y., quarto ed., III. 534.
[327] Cats Kill. The falls alluded to are the Kaaterskill Falls.
[328] The garden of the Thetinga State, the manor-house at Wieuwert. The tree is the arbor-vitæ.
[329] The fuyck is a hoop-net used for catching fish. Its shape is that of a truncated cone. The ground-plan of Albany (see p. [216], post, and the plan of 1695 in Rev. John Miller's Description of New York) had that shape.
[330] Robert Sanders of Albany was a prominent Indian trader, skilled in Indian languages.
[331] Mohawk River.
[332] The falls of Niagara had been mentioned by Cartier and by Champlain, but the first full description of them, that of Hennepin in his Description de la Louisiane, was not published till 1683.
[333] The falls at Cohoes are at present about 900 feet broad and 75 feet high.