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CHAPTER VI.

Showing the great advantage that the author has
over his reader in time of battle—together with
divers portentous movements; which betoken
that something terrible is about to happen.

Like as a mighty alderman, when at a corpo¬
ration feast the first spoonful of turtle soup
salutes his palate, feels his impatient appetite but
ten fold quickened, and redoubles his vigorous
attacks upon the tureen, while his voracious eyes,
projecting from his head, roll greedily round de¬
vouring every thing at table—so did the mettle¬
some Peter Stuyvesant, feel that intolerable
hunger for martial glory, which raged within his
very bowels, inflamed by the capture of Fort
Casimir, and nothing could allay it but the con¬
quest of all New Sweden. No sooner therefore
had he secured his conquest, than he stumped
resolutely on, flushed with success, to gather
fresh laurels at Fort Christina.*

This was the grand Swedish post, established
 

* This is at present a fiourishing town c.tUed Christiana, or
Christeen, about thirty-seveu miles from Philadelphia, on the
post road to Baltimore.