To prevent the cattle from being lost in the woods, they were pastured on Governor's, then called Nutten's Island.It was the last of September, 1629, when earth and dba oracle script sky were bathed in all the glories of New England autumnal days.The canoes of the traders penetrated the wide realms watered by the upper channels of the Delaware.The western extremity of Long Island was then called Breukelen, which has since been dba oracle script Anglicised into Brooklyn.The province was called New Netherland, and embraced the territory within the 40th and 45th degrees of north latitude.Though the energetic Dutch merchants were thus perseveringly and humanely pushing their commerce, and extending their trading posts, no attempt dba oracle script had yet been made for any systematic agricultural colonization.Thus the Indians were soon furnished with an abundant supply of fire arms, and became unerring marksmen.The Dutch, instead of retaliating dba oracle script with threats and violence, sent a conciliatory memorial to Charles I.The Company immediately erected a trading house, at the head of navigation of the Hudson river, which as we have mentioned, was then called Prince Maurice's River.Others came in their birch canoes, loaded to the gunwales, having set their traps along leagues of dba oracle script the river's coast and of distant streams.An Indian, from the vicinity of Westchester, came with his nephew, a small boy, bringing some beaver skins to barter with the Dutch at the fort.Runners were also sent back from the forts, to follow the narrow trails far into the woods, dba oracle script to open communication with new tribes, to examine the country, and to obtain a more intimate acquaintance with the manners and customs of the Indians.The diplomacy which ensued led to no decisive results.