Block's ship burns. Native Americans help crew build The Onrust. Block and Christiansen produce 1st map showing Manhattan and Long Island as separate areas.
Native Americans eat apples, beans, bear, beaver, deer, duck, elk, maple syrup, maize, marten, otter, oysters, pratridge, salt and freshwater, fish, squash, strawberries and turkey. In spring, women plant crops while the men rebuild homes. In late fall and winter, they hunt for animal meat and furs.
June
Captain Mossel arrives and leaves black sailor, Jan Rodrigues, with hatchets and knives for trade. Rodrigues joins Christiansen as interpreter but remains with the Rockaway Indians when Christiaensen leaves - with 2 young sons of a Native American chief: one murders Christiaensen near Albany.
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