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HISTORY OF
 

CHAPTER III,
 

Containing the fearful wrath of William the Tes¬
ty, and the great dolour of the J\*ew-Amster-
dammers, because of the affair of fort Goed
Hoop.—And, moreover, how William the Testy
did strongly fortify the city.—Together with
the exploits of Stoffel Brinkerhoff.

Language cannot express the prodigious fury,
into which the testy Wilhelmus Kieft was thrown
by this provoking intelligence. For three good
hours the rage of the little man was too great for
words, or rather the words were too great for him;
and he was nearly choked by some dozen huge,
mis-shapen, nine cornered Dutch oaths, that
crowded all at once into his gullet. Having blaz¬
ed off the first broadside, he kept up a constant
firirg for three whole days—anathematizing the
Yankees, man, woman, and child, body and soul,
for a set of dieven, schobbejaken, deugenieten,
twist-zoekeren, loozen-schalken,blaes-kaken, kak-
ken-bedden, and a thousand other names of which,
■ unfortunately for posterity, history does not make
mention. Finally, he swore that he would have
nothing more to do with such a squatting, bund¬
ling, guessing, questioning,   swapping,  pumkin-
 

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